Software Engineer: Backend

Accountabilities

• Design and develop highly scalable, intuitive, and well-documented APIs for new products and services.
• Take backend initiatives from initial research and requirements gathering through task definition, implementation, deployment, and evaluation.
• Create Engineering Requirement Documents that translate product ideas into clear technical plans and actionable development tasks.
• Build comprehensive automated test suites to maintain product quality, performance, and reliability.
• Implement product analytics and monitoring to measure the effectiveness and success of newly launched features.
• Contribute to high-scale backend systems, including APIs, messaging infrastructure, query systems, webhooks, and other core services.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle while working effectively in a predominantly asynchronous environment.
• Independently investigate technical challenges, propose solutions, and communicate designs and trade-offs clearly.
• Participate in a structured, paid work-trial period involving an agreed-upon backend project and collaborate with the team to deliver it successfully.
• Monitor and evaluate implemented solutions and contribute to continuous improvements following release.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of web API architecture, including the ability to design high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-documented APIs.
• Professional backend software engineering experience, with the ability to take ownership of projects from concept through production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical ideas, designs, requirements, and proposed solutions clearly in an asynchronous environment.
• Ability to work independently while knowing when to seek input, clarification, or technical support.
• Strong interest in participating in the entire product development lifecycle, including research, planning, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Comfortable working in a remote, globally distributed, and asynchronous startup environment where priorities can move quickly and effective time management is important.
• Fluency in written English is required, while strong spoken English is highly advantageous.
• Willingness and availability to participate in recurring team meetings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 2:30 PM GMT.
• Ability to commit to a two-week, full-time paid work trial as part of the mutual assessment process before a potential full-time offer.
• Experience working on high-volume systems, messaging platforms, search infrastructure, public APIs, webhooks, or distributed backend services is advantageous.

Benefits

• Estimated compensation of $60,000–$80,000 per year, depending on experience and other role- and market-related factors.
• Fully remote, globally distributed working environment.
• Significant ownership and responsibility within a fast-moving technology startup.
• Opportunity to work directly with experienced serial entrepreneurs who have built companies valued at more than $100 million.
• Hands-on involvement in disruptive AI-powered products and high-scale backend systems.
• A paid two-week full-time work trial, with project scope agreed upon before the trial begins.
• No take-home coding assignments or traditional “LeetCode-style” interview requirements.
• Opportunity to work independently while having access to the wider engineering team for guidance and support.
• Potential transition to a full-time position following successful completion of the mutual assessment period.
• Flexible global hiring approach that accommodates team members across different time zones, subject to required meeting availability.