Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Data Pipelines

Ranwalk; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity incentives

Free lunches

Job summary

A tech firm in Southern California is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate high-volume, distributed backend systems. Responsibilities include owning critical components end-to-end and making decisions surrounding performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience, advanced programming skills in Go and Python, and experience with event-driven architectures. The role offers competitive salary, equity incentives, and free lunches.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience working in a team environment deploying technology solutions.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a passion for building. Minimum of 3 professional references.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate high-volume, distributed backend systems.
• Own critical backend components end-to-end.
• Make pragmatic decisions around performance, reliability, and cost.

Skills

Backend programming (Go, Python)

Asynchronous & event-driven systems

Message queues & streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis)

Third-party API integrations

OAuth2 & secure access patterns

Structured & unstructured data processing

Distributed system reliability

Cloud & containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

ML inference or classification pipelines

Event-driven and asynchronous architectures

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Job description

A tech firm in Southern California is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate high-volume, distributed backend systems. Responsibilities include owning critical components end-to-end and making decisions surrounding performance and reliability. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience, advanced programming skills in Go and Python, and experience with event-driven architectures. The role offers competitive salary, equity incentives, and free lunches.