Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Salary: Confidential

Location: New York, New York

Relocation Assistance: Available

Job Description

Role summary

We are hiring multiple Senior Backend Engineers to build and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend systems for a new privacy-focused product line used by demanding enterprise and institutional customers. You will work on greenfield architecture, take systems from 01, and own critical infrastructure that must be both highly reliable and secure.

Location and work setup

Location: Onsite role in a major U.S. metro on the East Coast (relocation required if not local).

Schedule: Office-first team; expectation is in-person most days during the week.

Work authorization: No visa sponsorship available.

What you’ll do

Design, build, and scale high-performance, fault-tolerant backend services that handle high request and data volumes.

Own large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems, driving correctness, reliability, and clear SLOs.

Collaborate closely with mobile and frontend teams to define and maintain robust API and SDK boundaries.

Build durable, highly available data and caching layers with technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and NATS (or similar tooling).

Lead development of core enterprise capabilities, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, and secure data import/export flows.

Partner with security and infrastructure engineers to harden production systems and align them with a stringent threat model.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

3+ years of experience building and operating high-throughput, distributed backend systems in production.

Strong systems engineering background, with a track record of owning critical services end-to-end (design, implementation, operations).

Proficiency in at least one of: Rust, Go, or C/C++, and willingness to work primarily in a systems language.

Experience taking systems from concept to production (0?1) in fast-paced environments (early-stage startup or comparable high-growth teams).

Deep focus on reliability, observability, and performance; you care about metrics, failure modes, and long-term maintainability.

Nice to have

Experience with privacy-tech, secure messaging, or cryptographic / end-to-end encrypted systems.

Background working on products with strict security, compliance, or regulatory requirements (e.g., gov, fintech, critical infrastructure).

Prior experience in early-stage (SeedSeries B) companies where you helped set technical direction.

Team and culture

You’ll join a small, senior engineering team where every engineer has significant product and architectural ownership.

The culture values integrity, curiosity about technology, and long-term craftsmanship over short-term optimization or purely monetary motivation.

Ideal teammates are motivated by building privacy-preserving systems that meaningfully raise the bar for security and reliability.

Compensation

Competitive cash compensation at the upper end of the market for senior backend engineers in this geography.

Meaningful equity stake in a high-growth, early-stage company building mission-critical infrastructure.

Why is This a Great Opportunity:

Just raised one of the largest seed rounds in tech with backing from major VCs