Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

We Are:

On a mission to ensure businesses never fail due to a third-party incident.

A stealth startup backed by tier 1 VCs, already working with paying customers, and aiming to triple our team size in the next two years.

Driven by transparency - we give top talent the full context to own their work.

We value spontaneous discussions over formal meetings and believe working together in the same room is the fastest (and most fun) way to solve complex challenge

Disrupt a market that’s been stagnant for years - and shape it with a solution the industry has never seen before.

We move fast, building on a modern, scalable stack designed for high-performance data processing and ML/LLM operations - Golang, Huggingface, LangSmith, gRPC, ConnectRPC, Bufstream (Kafka-like, streaming platform), Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD. We heavily invest in DevEx with tools like Cursor and Okteto (read our case-study here: https://www.okteto.com/customers/lema-ai/) to ensure engineers can focus on delivering value.

You Are:

A seasoned backend engineer (6+ years) who thrives on building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up.

Experienced in designing and scaling modern microservices architectures (both BE and FE integration).

Capable of taking complex features from design to deployment, owning every stage of the backend lifecycle - while guiding others to do the same.

Pragmatic about code quality: confident refactoring, simplifying and deleting code when needed.

Comfortable leading code reviews, defining engineering standards and collaborating across product, design and infrastructure.

You will:

Be one of our first 15 engineers, shaping both our product and our engineering culture.

Define and evolve the backend architecture, infrastructure and development best practices for a fast-growing team.

Own features end-to-end - from concept and design discussions to implementation, deployment and observability.

Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines.

Continuously improve developer workflows - identify friction, integrate new tools, automate repetitive tasks and champion engineering excellence.

Lead and mentor a small team of engineers: drive planning, break down work, ensure quality delivery and help hire exceptional talent.

Collaborate with experienced peers - engineers, PMs and designers - who’ve built large-scale systems at top-tier companies.