Lead Backend Engineer: Rust Microservices & API Leadership

Attain; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-driven company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to anchor backend technical efforts for the Frisbee Rewards application. The successful candidate will design and develop Rust-based microservices, collaborate with mobile engineers for API design, and guide architectural decisions across teams. Ideal applicants bring over 6 years of backend engineering experience and a passion for technical leadership. This hybrid position offers flexibility with in-office requirements in Redwood City, CA.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and owning backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing APIs, service boundaries, and data models.
• Experience operating systems in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own Rust-based microservices for the Frisbee consumer experience.
• Define and maintain clean APIs and client-server contracts for mobile applications.
• Provide architectural guidance and code reviews across backend and mobile codebases.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Microservices

Cloud environments

Collaborative working with mobile engineers

Tools

Rust

gRPC

GraphQL

AWS

Relational databases

Job description

A tech-driven company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to anchor backend technical efforts for the Frisbee Rewards application. The successful candidate will design and develop Rust-based microservices, collaborate with mobile engineers for API design, and guide architectural decisions across teams. Ideal applicants bring over 6 years of backend engineering experience and a passion for technical leadership. This hybrid position offers flexibility with in-office requirements in Redwood City, CA.