Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems & Workflows

Frontdoor Defense; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is America's next-generation power company. We're rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today's fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.

We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time. This Backend role focuses on designing and operating a distributed onboarding workflow platform, ensuring correctness

Qualifications

• Strong systems and API design fundamentals.
• Deep analytical ability and sound technical judgment in ambiguous environments.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems with real correctness requirements.
• Comfort reasoning about idempotency, ordering, state machines, reconciliation, observability, and recovery from failure.
• Ability to separate stakeholder requests from the underlying system or product problem.
• Strong written communication and a high bar for clarity.
• Experience with operationally complex products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems that support critical member and operational workflows.
• Define clear ownership, state, invariants, and failure handling for processes that span multiple services and teams.
• Build systems that remain correct under retries, duplicate events, delayed data, partial failure, concurrent updates, and manual intervention.
• Make tradeoffs between consistency, availability, latency, operational complexity, and member experience.
• Identify process bottlenecks and turn manual or error-prone work into reliable automation.
• Build infrastructure for experimentation, integrations, and workflow orchestration.
• Stream live and derived data into internal and member-facing applications.
• Write clearly and align technical decisions across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Systems design

API design

Distributed systems

Observability

Recovery from failure

Written communication

Problem separation

Analytical thinking

Operationally complex products

Job description

Base is America's next-generation power company. We're rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today's fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.

We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time. This Backend role focuses on designing and operating a distributed onboarding workflow platform, ensuring correctness