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About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Backend Functional Team, you'll lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives. The culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management gives each team member full ownership of projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem.
What you'll do
- Lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives.
- Use Perl (Version 5), Go, and Node.js to write pragmatic, performant, testable code that works consistently.
- Collaborate remotely with peers and take responsibility for solving product issues impacting the all-in-one privacy solution, whether large or small.
- In time, formally mentor other engineers, supporting their career growth and the growth of the Backend Team.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of professional experience, primarily focused on backend systems that power consumer-facing products.
- Product acumen to reason about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact.
- Familiarity with AI agent tooling: evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering.
- A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms; ability to develop and apply new solutions and confidently navigate and improve existing code.
- Data-driven analytical skills for decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and experiment-oriented delivery.
- Solid project management abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication to validate and articulate decisions.
- Previous experience leading and mentoring experienced engineers, supporting their career goals, and unlocking their potential.
- Attend meetings on camera via video conferencing.
- Expect to travel at least two times a year for an all-hands meetup and a team retreat, each around 4–5 days. While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
- Pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
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Benefits
Flexible working hoursComprehensive benefitsWorkspace stipendHealth & wellness stipendPaid learning stipendsPaid retreatsRetirementAsynchronous workPaid parental leaveLaptop provided