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Software Engineer, Backend

New York, NYFull-time$131k–$169k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications and high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure for a business operations platform.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Builds

High-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure and scalable systems

Domain

HR Technology / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, Go, SQL, AWS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, Memcache, ElasticSearch, Git, CircleCI, DataDog

Preferred skills

Experience helping junior developers, knowledge sharing, mentoring

Technologies

Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

Responsibilities

Independently own large-scoped projects from discovery to launch; Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems; Enhance testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure; Keep sensitive data compartmentalized and secure; Collaborate with cross-functional teams on customer challenges.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC