Remote Backend Engineer — Scale High-Traffic Systems

Silversmith Capital Partners; New Jersey; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation time

Work from home stipend

Apple laptops provided

Training and development budget

Maternity & Paternity leave

Stock options

Regular team offsites

Job summary

Silversmith Capital Partners is looking for a skilled backend engineer to work remotely. This role involves designing and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our in-house search engine, ensuring it can handle billions of requests daily.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in algorithms, data structures, and experience with Rust, C++, or Python. Join our remote team and enjoy benefits like unlimited vacation time, a work-from-home stipend, and the opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling high-traffic, high-availability backend systems.
• Experience designing and operating backend infrastructure with deployment automation.
• Comfortable working across different layers of the stack from code to production operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure that services the platform.
• Ensure performance, stability, and reliability across the global product.

Skills

Algorithms

Data Structures

Concurrency

Systems Design

High-Traffic Systems

Operational Infrastructure

Learning New Technologies

Team Collaboration

Education

Strong foundation in computer science

Tools

Rust

C++

Python

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Silversmith Capital Partners is looking for a skilled backend engineer to work remotely. This role involves designing and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our in-house search engine, ensuring it can handle billions of requests daily.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in algorithms, data structures, and experience with Rust, C++, or Python. Join our remote team and enjoy benefits like unlimited vacation time, a work-from-home stipend, and the opportunity to make a significant impact.