Staff Software Engineer, Core Everand

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Core Everand based in the United States. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping the backend platform behind a growing digital reading and listening experience. You will define technical direction and build scalable distributed systems that power discoverability, personalization, experimentation, and core user journeys. The role combines hands-on backend engineering with architecture, reliability, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership. You will partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Web, Mobile, and ML teams to translate user needs and ambiguous product ideas into robust technical solutions. A key focus will be strengthening platform health, modernizing legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and improving observability and scalability. You will have broad influence over engineering standards while helping teams move faster without compromising quality or reliability. This remote opportunity is ideal for an experienced backend engineer who combines strong technical judgment with a genuine focus on users and collaborative engineering. Accountabilities: - Set technical direction for the backend platform by creating and socializing design documents, leading architecture reviews, and translating ambiguous product requirements into concrete technical solutions. - Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services supporting web and mobile experiences, discoverability, personalization, experimentation, and core content consumption. - Own backend reliability and platform health across staging environments, CI/CD, databases, queues, infrastructure costs, observability, and operational performance. - Establish and improve reliability practices, including service-level objectives, metrics, alerts, telemetry, and effective approaches to debugging distributed systems.

- Raise engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, mentorship, pairing, knowledge sharing, and strong expectations around architecture, testing, security, and operations. - Represent backend engineering in cross-team planning and serve as a technical connector across Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, Web, Mobile, and ML teams. - Drive modernization initiatives that simplify legacy systems, eliminate technical debt, improve scalability, and increase engineering velocity. - Partner with data and ML teams to develop backend capabilities supporting recommendations, personalization, experimentation, and consistent data experiences across platforms. - Use metrics, analytics, and telemetry to identify trends, investigate anomalies, and inform technical priorities and product decisions. - Contribute to architecture review groups and cross-team technical initiatives that strengthen engineering practices and organizational standards. - Champion a user-first approach, ensuring backend architecture and technical decisions ultimately improve the reading and listening experience. - Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, collaboration, and responsible engineering decision-making. Requirements: - Significant professional experience in backend software engineering, with a proven record of designing, building, and scaling distributed systems. - Strong programming skills in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Scala, Go, or Python, with Ruby experience particularly valued. - Deep understanding of distributed systems, backend architecture, scalable service design, and production engineering. - Strong knowledge of reliability and observability practices, including SLOs, metrics, alerting, telemetry, and distributed-system debugging. - Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and leading large-scale migrations or modernization initiatives.