Senior Backend Engineer – API Platform (Remote)

Signifyd; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited time off

401K Match

Stock Options

Annual Bonus

Paid Parental Leave

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

FSA

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Company Social Events

Signifyd Swag

Job summary

Signifyd is seeking a senior back-end engineer to own the public-facing API platform and ingestion services for retailers integrating with Signifyd. You will design and build world-class services, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture, performance, and reliability in high-traffic systems, with opportunities to mentor peers and shape technical direction within the Integrations & Onboarding team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in software development with modern programming languages, experience programming in a functional style.
• Track record of leading design and delivery of large, ambiguous projects end to end.
• Strong software design and architecture skills for scalability, performance, reliability.
• Experience building distributed systems or public-facing APIs.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Ability to communicate with engineers and non-engineers.
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants and evaluating generated code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver large-scale, real-time systems with high quality, scalability, and operability.
• Collaborate with product management, data engineering, and other teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code changes.
• Identify technical debt and propose solutions.
• Take operational ownership using monitoring and observability tools.
• Mentor team members to raise the technical bar.

Skills

Functional programming

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud platforms

Communication

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

SQL

gRPC

HTTP/REST

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Cassandra

Pub/Sub

Bigtable

Databricks

Job description

Signifyd is seeking a senior back-end engineer to own the public-facing API platform and ingestion services for retailers integrating with Signifyd. You will design and build world-class services, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes architecture, performance, and reliability in high-traffic systems, with opportunities to mentor peers and shape technical direction within the Integrations & Onboarding team.