Senior Backend Engineer

Whisperly; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Tallinn office option

Equity

Hardware budget

Cloud credits

Learning funds

Conference support

Async-first

Protected focus time

Influence over tech direction

Job summary

Whisperly is seeking a senior backend engineer in the United States to build and operate the foundation for enterprise compliance workflows. You will own core infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, and reliability, collaborating with product, frontend, and AI teams to deliver dependable platform features.

The role is remote-first with an office option in Tallinn, Estonia, offering competitive compensation, equity, and tooling budgets to support your work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in API design, using REST and/or GraphQL.
• Strong experience with relational databases, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines.
• A track record of owning reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Comfort working in a small, autonomous engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for compliance workflows.
• Architect and operate production data pipelines that ingest, transform, and expose data reliably.
• Own reliability, performance, and observability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with AI engineers on backend services for model serving and integration.
• Define API contracts used by product and frontend teams.
• Contribute to design reviews and architecture decisions, and apply suitable security and data-handling practices for sensitive information.

Skills

Backend systems

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Reliability & observability

Distributed systems

Team collaboration

Tools

Relational databases (SQL)

Query optimization

Monitoring & alerting tools

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate the backend foundations for enterprise compliance workflows, including APIs, data pipelines, and services that process sensitive information reliably at scale. The engineer owns core infrastructure quality and works across product, frontend, and AI engineering to support dependable platform features.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for compliance workflows.
• Architect and operate production data pipelines that ingest, transform, and expose data reliably.
• Own reliability, performance, and observability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with AI engineers on backend services for model serving and integration.
• Define API contracts used by product and frontend teams.
• Contribute to design reviews and architecture decisions, and apply suitable security and data-handling practices for sensitive information.

Requirements

• At least 5 years building production backend systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in API design, using REST and/or GraphQL.
• Strong experience with relational databases, query optimization, and data modeling.
• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines.
• A track record of owning reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Comfort working in a small, autonomous engineering team.

Nice to have

• The source mentions additional preferred experience but is truncated before the details, so no specific preference can be confirmed.

Benefits and work setup

• Full-time, remote-first role, with the option to work from an office in Tallinn, Estonia.
• Competitive compensation and early-stage equity are listed.
• Hardware budget, cloud credits, annual learning funds, and conference support.
• Async-first practices, protected focus time, and direct influence over technical direction.