Senior Backend Engineer
Full-time
Next Ventures
About this role
We’re looking for a backend engineer with 2–5 years of professional (non-internship) experience. The ideal candidate has experience designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, preferably in data-intensive or high-growth environments, and has a proven ability to deliver meaningful business impact. Strong fundamentals in a cloud platform such as GCP or AWS are a plus.
What you’ll do
Build new features, products, integrations, and backend services
Design scalable systems to support millions of users
Own and deliver high-impact engineering initiatives
Collaborate with teammates across engineering, product, and other functions
Work with complex datasets, building integrations and enriching data to create actionable insights
Influence technical direction and product roadmap through your expertise
Tech stack
Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, BigTable, Redis, Python RQ, Temporal, GCP, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Docker, Pub/Sub, Datadog, PagerDuty
About the team
Lean and fast-moving, with high levels of ownership and autonomy
Collaborative culture that values impact, trust, and meritocracy
Fully remote, with flexible hours and global teammates
Rapidly scaling with strong growth and long-term opportunities
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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