Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Equity & Scalable Platform

Syllo; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

Job summary

Syllo, a fast-growing litigation tech company, is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and scale backend systems powering a data platform. You’ll work with product, data, and frontend teams to deliver reliable APIs and high-performance infrastructure in a dynamic startup setting.

The role requires 6+ years of engineering experience, Ruby or Python proficiency, and strong API/database expertise. This is a US-based remote position with a competitive salary and equity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Strong programming skills in Ruby or Python.
• Experience developing APIs with Rails, Flask, or Django.
• Proficiency with relational databases, full-text search, or vector DBs.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud (GCP, Pub/Sub, Kafka).
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs to support the data platform.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver scalable, high-quality features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Work on system design and architecture to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Integrate data sources and third-party tools as needed to enhance platform capabilities.
• Participate in technical design discussions, peer code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

6+ years engineering experience

Ruby

Python

APIs (Rails/Flask/Django)

Databases / search / vector

Distributed systems / Cloud (GCP, Pub/

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Syllo, a fast-growing litigation tech company, is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and scale backend systems powering a data platform. You’ll work with product, data, and frontend teams to deliver reliable APIs and high-performance infrastructure in a dynamic startup setting.

The role requires 6+ years of engineering experience, Ruby or Python proficiency, and strong API/database expertise. This is a US-based remote position with a competitive salary and equity.