Key Duties, Responsibilities, and Deliverables

Product & Backend Feature Development

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of features and products.
• Implement, test, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems and APIs, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity.
• Apply backend development best practices to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and operational readiness.

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Develop and enhance our cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) through automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Develop, oversee, and maintain operational systems—from deployment pipelines to orchestration layers—ensuring application health, reliability, and scalability using containerized solutions like Kubernetes.
• Execute scalability and performance optimization strategies to ensure systems efficiently handle increasing workloads.

Architecture & Systems Design

• Contribute to the design and implementation of systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, enabling independent, reusable services and microservices.
• Participate in architectural discussions that influence the platform’s long-term reliability, performance, and scalability.

Security, Reliability & Documentation

• Collaborate with security experts to integrate IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, and related best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations/incident response, contributing to the operational reliability of our platform.
• Create and maintain documentation on system architecture, infrastructure, and security practices.

Expertise and Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of experience building performant, scalable, distributed systems (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience required for Senior/Lead candidates.
• Proficiency in Golang and Python is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and core SRE/DevOps concepts.
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable SaaS backend systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud automation.
• Strong understanding of operational practices and willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
• Knowledge of modern security principles and IAM fundamentals.
• A passion for staying current with backend, cloud, and infrastructure technologies.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Senior Candidates)

• Demonstrated success scaling infrastructure in a startup environment, including multicloud, hybrid, or on-prem deployments.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding engineers, supporting technical growth and career development.
• Ability to act as a technical architect, making high-impact design decisions for reliable, scalable, and secure platform systems.

Background and Experience Traits

• SaaS Platform Expertise: Experience building and scaling cloud-based SaaS platforms.
• Adaptability: Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly in a fast-moving environment.
• Teamwork & Communication: Strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration and clear articulation of technical concepts.
  Entrepreneurial Spirit: Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptable to change, and energized by building in a rapidly evolving startup setting.