Senior Backend Engineer - Core Systems & Infrastructure

Hex Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 215.000 - 270.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health benefits

Flexible paid time off

Zusammenfassung

Hex Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, maintain, and evolve core systems used company-wide. You’ll own APIs, realtime transport, data access frameworks, job orchestration, and internal admin tooling.

You will collaborate with product teams to turn recurring needs into robust, reusable software, set architectural direction, and raise the quality bar across the backend. Frontend experience helps understand end-to-end flows, but this role remains backend-focused.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of professional software engineering with backend focus.
• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js and SQL.
• Experience building and maintaining shared backend systems or frameworks used by multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows.
• Experience with relational databases and data modeling at scale.
• Familiarity with background job systems, queues, or workflow orchestration tools.
• Comfort operating and evolving production systems over time.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Aufgaben

• Design and build backend frameworks and services used across the company.
• Own and evolve critical shared systems, including APIs, realtime transport, and job orchestration.
• Improve reliability, performance, observability, and security of foundational backend infrastructure.
• Partner with product teams to turn recurring needs into shared abstractions.
• Lead technical design discussions and help set architectural direction.
• Drive refactors, migrations, and system upgrades that reduce long-term complexity.
• Improve internal tooling to support debugging, operations, and customer-facing workflows.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to strong engineering standards and practices.

Kenntnisse

Backend experience

Typescript/Node.js

SQL

API design

Distributed systems

Relational databases

Background jobs / queues

AWS

Production systems

Communication

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Kubernetes

GraphQL

BullMQ

Temporal

Python (kernels)

Jobbeschreibung

Hex Technologies seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, maintain, and evolve core systems used company-wide. You’ll own APIs, realtime transport, data access frameworks, job orchestration, and internal admin tooling.

You will collaborate with product teams to turn recurring needs into robust, reusable software, set architectural direction, and raise the quality bar across the backend. Frontend experience helps understand end-to-end flows, but this role remains backend-focused.