Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, implement, and scale core platform infrastructure and backend systems with a strong focus on reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and improve developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and engineering workflows to enhance developer experience and reduce operational friction.
• Establish and promote platform engineering best practices, architectural standards, and scalable approaches across engineering teams.
• Implement security-by-design principles and operationalize security and compliance controls without unnecessarily slowing product development.
• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure, observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational processes.
• Work closely with engineering and product leaders to balance delivery speed, cost, resilience, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional technical initiatives that improve the overall engineering platform and development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and help raise engineering standards across teams.
• Improve monorepo development workflows, tooling, and automation to support efficient engineering at scale.
• Contribute hands-on to new challenges and evolving priorities within a dynamic, high-growth technology environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Proven experience designing and scaling cloud-native systems, preferably in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Python 3 and AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Spacelift, or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of relational and distributed databases, including PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident response, and production operations.
• Demonstrated success improving developer experience through better tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and engineering workflows.
• Experience improving monorepo development workflows using technologies such as Bazel, Buck, or Pants.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, with the ability to translate requirements into practical engineering controls.
• Experience leading security initiatives, including environment hardening and secure-by-default development or deployment practices.
• Strong technical leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering and product functions.
• Experience with transportation systems such as TMS or ELD, or with scientific and analytics applications, is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with modern data technologies such as dbt and DuckDB is a plus.

Benefits

• Compensation of $180,000–$220,000 in on-target earnings.
• Series C-level equity participation.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance fully covered for employees and 50% covered for dependents.
• Life insurance, with optional supplemental coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Unlimited paid time off covering vacation, personal days, sick days, jury duty, military leave, and bereavement.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave available to all employees.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• Fitness membership reimbursement.
• Commuter benefits.
• Flexible working environment with the option to work remotely across the United States.