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Singletonet

Computer System Architect

Houston, TX · On-site

$232K/yr

Architect microservices-based backend systems using modern distributed system design principles. * Define communication patterns between services using synchronous and asynchronous messaging ...

Point Wild

Backend Architect - Golang

This role suits someone who wants to design secure, scalable systems and write the code that runs them. What You'll Do * Define and evolve the architecture of our backend platform serving connections ...

Virtusa Corporation

Systems Architect

New York, NY · On-site

$265K/yr

... backend systems Collaborate with the integration architect to ensure process designs are technically feasible and integration dependencies are correctly sequenced Define the canonical data model ...

Singletonet

Software Developer - Backend

Houston, TX · On-site

The Backend Developer will collaborate with system architects, frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and quality assurance teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

ICONSTAFF

Senior Backend Engineer

Boston, MA · Remote

$160K - $240K/yr

You'll lead technical projects, handle large-scale data processing, and help shape system architecture and performance. What You'll Do * Design and build backend systems and APIs * Own projects from ...

Pansophic Learning

Senior Backend Engineer

Mclean, VA · On-site

Contribute to system architecture decisions and backend design improvements * Support deployment processes and maintain CI/CD workflows Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science ...

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Staff Engineer, Backend Systems

San Francisco, CA • Hybrid

CMP.jobs
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Full-time

Re-posted 13 days ago

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About the role We are looking for a Staff Engineer to be one of the most senior technical contributors on the engineering team, driving the architecture and execution of the backend systems that power our core product. Since emerging from private beta,the company has seen rapid adoption - hundreds of businesses signing up each week, including larger teams relying on the product in production-critical workflows. The product surface area is expanding quickly: we're building an external API platform, shipping new AI-driven capabilities, and designing the data model and system architecture to support increasingly complex customer workflows. You’ll work primarily in a Postgres-backed, multi-tenant backend (Node/TypeScript on AWS) where API design and data architecture directly shape the product experience. This is not a reliability or platform-focused role - it's a product-facing technical leadership role. You'll be in the room shaping what gets built, then leading the architecture and execution of the most important backend work streams. You'll partner closely with the co-founders and product leadership to translate product ambition into technical strategy, and you'll raise the bar for the engineering team through the quality of your work and your judgment. Scalability and performance are part of the job, but the pitch is the opportunity to shape the product at a foundational level as one of the earliest senior engineers on the team. What you'll do Lead the architecture and execution of the company's most critical backend work streams - API platform, core data model, and systems that underpin new product capabilities Scale our API platform: multi-tenant isolation, versioning, rate limits/quotas, idempotency, and measurable latency/throughput goals Partner with co-founders and product leadership to translate product direction into backend architecture decisions Explore and ship agentic capabilities that require safe sandbox code execution (isolation, resource limits, auditability, security guardrails) Design and ship customer-defined CRM schema (custom fields, custom objects, flexible relationships) without sacrificing query performance or clean APIs Lead complex projects end-to-end - for example, taking custom objects from data model → migrations → query patterns → API ergonomics Own the abstractions that the broader engineering team builds on top of Raise the bar through design leadership, code review, and technical mentorship Contribute to hiring as the team grows - helping identify and close strong technical talent 8+ years of experience of building and scaling backend systems Equity - Meaningful early-stage equity Visa sponsorship available - including new H1B applications applications Hybrid work policy - 4 days in office with Wednesdays being optionally remote. Full-time position Location: San Francisco, CA Tech stack: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL,AWS

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