Senior Back End Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 07-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Title: Senior Backend Engineer
Location: San Francisco (Fully Remote)
Compensation: $150000 - $180000 Base (Equity is on the table)

A repidly growing prominent company is exclusively seeking a Senior Backend Architect/Engineer for a critical fully remote role. This is a vital architectural leadership position. We are searching for an experienced individual (7 years) proficient in Python and/or Ruby with a proven ability to design build and scale backend systems and APIs. Success in this role requires a strong focus on technical debt reduction BDD/TDD methodologies and contributing to modern architectures like microservices on platforms like AWS/Heroku.

Focus: Core responsibility is to design build and refactor scalable backend systems that directly power mission-critical operations and partner platforms.
Impact: Directly contribute to improving system speed reliability and engineering team capacity for revenue-generating initiatives.
Culture: Join an engineering team committed to BDD/TDD practices and structured mentorship.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experience: -Minimum 7 years of hands-on backend engineering experience focused on high-traffic scalable architecture.
Languages: -Expert proficiency in either Python or Ruby (or both).
API & Data: -Deep skill in RESTful API design database modeling and complex querying.
Architectural Insight: -Strong knowledge of design patterns and a proactive approach to architecture discussions and system evolution.

Desired Background (Highly Advantageous)

Deep experience leveraging major frameworks (e.g. Django or Ruby on Rails) to rapidly deploy and scale services.
Demonstrated expertise working with cloud-environments (AWS Heroku) to manage deployment monitoring and scaling of backend systems.
Proven ability to contribute to or design-modern-architectures includingmicroservices or minilith systems focusing on clear service separation.
Domain familiarity or past experience working with Real Estate (or FinTech) platforms that involve high-value regulated transactions.

Benefits: Full Eligibility PTO 401(k) Plan Leaves & Employee Well-being Program

HOW TO STAND OUT

To ensure your experience is fully captured I encourage you to mention any project-related accomplishments or accolades that provide concrete evidence of your expertise. Please include:

Links to your GitHub profile (especially relevant open-source contributions)
Project websites or live demos
Quantifiable results from past roles (e.g. reduced API latency by X%).
Emphasize your commitment to BDD/TDD. Mention which testing frameworks you use and hot you ensure code quality at scale.

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Position Title: Senior Backend EngineerLocation: San Francisco (Fully Remote)Compensation: $150000 - $180000 Base (Equity is on the table)A repidly growing prominent company is exclusively seeking a Senior Backend Architect/Engineer for a critical fully remote role. This is a vital architectura...