Backend Engineer - Build Scalable APIs & Core Systems

Forsyth Barnes; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes partners with a high-growth NYC consumer technology company to hire two Backend Engineers. You’ll own substantial parts of systems from day one, designing APIs, data models and services for scale.

Join a small, technically focused team working directly with the CTO/co-founder, shaping architecture and product decisions while delivering robust backend infrastructure and production-ready code.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, and databases.
• Ownership of architecture and contributions to core engineering teams.
• Willingness to work with Python, FastAPI and PostgreSQL; open to other languages.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve APIs and data models for production use.
• Develop systems to ingest and structure large real-world data and scale them.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Databases

Infrastructure

Event-driven architecture

Zero-to-production

Tools

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Java

Go

C++

Rust

C#

Job description

Forsyth Barnes partners with a high-growth NYC consumer technology company to hire two Backend Engineers. You’ll own substantial parts of systems from day one, designing APIs, data models and services for scale.

Join a small, technically focused team working directly with the CTO/co-founder, shaping architecture and product decisions while delivering robust backend infrastructure and production-ready code.