Remote Lead Backend Engineer — Event-Driven, High-Volume

movableink; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Bonus potential

Medical benefits

Job summary

Movable Ink is seeking a hands‑on, senior technical leader to design and deliver backend services that translate customer activity into timely, eligible actions. You will own architecture, implement scalable event‑driven systems, and guide engineers across production operations.

You will define service boundaries, build correlated event pipelines, and mentor a team while improving reliability, observability, and incident response.

Qualifications

• At least seven years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or platform systems.
• Significant experience with distributed, event‑driven, or high‑scale services and asynchronous processing.
• Strong architectural judgment for stateful systems, near‑real‑time decisioning, reliability, and production operations.
• Hands‑on technical leadership, including design reviews, mentoring, and leading complex initiatives.
• Understanding of event‑processing concerns such as retries, duplicates, ordering, late data, idempotency, backfills, and consistency.
• Ability to turn ambiguous goals into practical designs and communicate tradeoffs across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define service boundaries and architecture for detecting behavioral patterns and producing trigger events.
• Build and review systems that correlate events over time, maintain short‑lived context, and evaluate eligibility.
• Develop reusable rule‑based or declarative patterns for adding and extending triggers.
• Translate product goals into technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery with partner teams.
• Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical issues, and represent the team in architecture discussions.
• Improve reliability and operational insight through monitoring, tracing, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Distributed systems

Event-driven processing

Architectural judgment

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Production operations

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Movable Ink is seeking a hands‑on, senior technical leader to design and deliver backend services that translate customer activity into timely, eligible actions. You will own architecture, implement scalable event‑driven systems, and guide engineers across production operations.

You will define service boundaries, build correlated event pipelines, and mentor a team while improving reliability, observability, and incident response.