Backend Engineer Europe - Low-Latency Microservices

Backstory; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Backstory.ai is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain foundational systems powering identity, authorization, audit logging, and BI exports. You will design low-latency APIs, data pipelines, and scalable distributed systems in a focused engineering environment.

You will contribute across the stack, collaborate with Product, and own features end-to-end from requirements to production monitoring, with strong emphasis on automation and observability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend experience in an enterprise environment.
• 1+ years programming in Python or Scala.
• Solid understanding of microservices and service-oriented architectures.
• Familiarity with databases, caching strategies, and low-latency service design.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs with reliability considerations.
• Exposure to data synchronization patterns and high-consistency pipelines.
• Able to navigate unfamiliar codebases and drive incremental improvements.
• Appreciation for automation and reducing manual toil.
• Experience with Spark is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performant, low-latency APIs and distributed microservices handling identity, authorization, user profiles, settings, and product configurations.
• Implement and maintain data pipelines that move large volumes of data with consistency and reliability, including audit-log systems and BI data exports.
• Maintain and improve existing features based on user feedback and evolving product requirements.
• Follow and promote engineering best practices, including structured logging, cross-service request tracking, and robust error management.
• Contribute to production observability through alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Build tooling to reduce manual operations for engineering teams and support customer support self-service workflows.
• Contribute to feature development end-to-end: from requirement discussions with Product to production monitoring.

Skills

Backend systems

Python/Scala

Microservices/SOA

REST APIs

Data pipelines

Communication

Tools

Spark

Job description

Backstory.ai is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain foundational systems powering identity, authorization, audit logging, and BI exports. You will design low-latency APIs, data pipelines, and scalable distributed systems in a focused engineering environment.

You will contribute across the stack, collaborate with Product, and own features end-to-end from requirements to production monitoring, with strong emphasis on automation and observability.