Remote Lead Backend Engineer: Scalable Integrations

movableink; United States; Remote; USD 147,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Movable Ink is seeking a remote Lead Software Engineer focused on backend platform and integrations. You will shape technical direction while contributing through hands-on coding and architectural work.

The role drives reliability and operational excellence for a critical enterprise personalization platform. Responsibilities include defining system architecture, mentoring engineers, and ensuring scalable integration services with strong observability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and adjacent languages.
• Experience designing and operating distributed services with production reliability patterns.
• Experience building scalable backend services in cloud environments, ideally on Google Cloud Platform.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services owned by the team, focusing on integration-facing capabilities.
• Lead hands-on design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support on high-impact work.
• Translate product goals into technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery paths with management and product teams.
• Mentor engineers daily, unblock work, review designs and code, and raise the technical bar across the team.
• Ensure integration services operate reliably at scale with observability, metrics, traces, logs, and postmortems.
• Represent the team in cross-platform architecture discussions and align on shared patterns and interfaces.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership

GCP

Observability

Production reliability

Communication

Job description

Movable Ink is seeking a remote Lead Software Engineer focused on backend platform and integrations. You will shape technical direction while contributing through hands-on coding and architectural work.

The role drives reliability and operational excellence for a critical enterprise personalization platform. Responsibilities include defining system architecture, mentoring engineers, and ensuring scalable integration services with strong observability.