Backend Software Engineering Manager

Cypress HCM; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

100% Covered Health Insurance

Job summary

A leading tech start-up based in Seattle is seeking a Senior/Lead Backend Software Engineer to join its technical team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing online platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Key qualifications include 5 to 10 years of experience in building scalable online services, strong skills in Kotlin and cloud technologies, and a focus on best practices in software development. This position offers a competitive salary package including bonus, equity, and comprehensive health insurance.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of experience building and operating highly-available online services.
• Proven track record of technical ownership of complex online systems.
• Experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop online platform solutions for various products.
• Build and operate highly available, secure, and maintainable components.
• Drive service quality through performance analysis and monitoring.

Skills

Kotlin

Spring Boot

gRPC

Kubernetes

AWS

Infrastructure as code

Collaboration skills

Solution architecture

API design

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Workflows

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

Job description

An exciting learning technology start-up client is looking to add a few pivotal Senior/Lead Backend Software Engineers to their growing technical team. These technical leaders will be brought onboard an already impressive group of engineers to architect, build and operate this exciting new platform. This role requires people who have strong technical ownership and a user-first design approach since they will be owning services end-to-end that will deeply impact user experiences.

Duties Of Role

• Design and develop online platform solutions powering their products and features including user identity, ecosystem safety, data privacy, publishing & distribution, educational products, social features, game services, telemetry platform etc.
• Build and operate highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable components
• Drive service quality through performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with product, design, educators, and engineering teams to translate the vision into technical solutions
• Take ownership of outcomes from initial design through production operations
• Implement best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years building and operating highly-available online services at scale preferably using Kotlin, Spring Boot, gRPC and Kubernetes
• Ability to quickly understand and translate user needs into technical solution designs
• Proven track record of technical ownership of complex online systems and solutions
• Expereince designing, building, launching, operating, and improving online solutions end-to-end
• Strong solution architecture and API design skills
• Solid experience with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform, ArgoCD), GitHub Workflows or alike etc.
• Solid understanding of both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) databases
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
• Excellence in code reviews, technical communication, and documentation
• Background in high-scale B2C applications would be ideal

Salary of $200,000 Base + Bonus, Equity and 100% Covered Health Insurance