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Senior Backend Engineer

New York, New York💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-30 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and maintain cloud services and distributed systems that power a global dating app to facilitate user connections.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer

Builds

RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems for mobile clients

Domain

Consumer technology / Dating applications

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Go, Python, Kubernetes, distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure, event-based architecture, gRPC/Protobuf, Kafka, Argo, OpenTelemetry

Preferred skills

System design & architecture, collaboration and communication

Technologies

Go, Python, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kafka, Argo, OpenTelemetry, gRPC/Protobuf

Responsibilities

Design and build RESTful APIs for mobile clients; Design and build microservices that run on Kubernetes; Design and build distributed systems in Go; Take part in backend On-Call rotation; Own the technical design, implementation, and success of projects

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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