Senior Backend Engineer, Enterprise Control Plane

Hightouch

New York (NY)

Remote

USD 180,000 - 400,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Hightouch is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Control Plane team, focused on enterprise onboarding, governance, and scalable deployments. You’ll work on backend, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows with strong product sense and customer impact.

The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and scalable access control, with a remote-first policy and meaningful equity compensation. This is a senior role with impact across the platform.

Qualifications

  • Senior backend engineer with experience in large-scale distributed services.
  • Strong customer and product thinking with ability to write specs.
  • Experience designing scalable access control and data processing.
  • Proven ability to architect backend systems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale backend systems for enterprise-grade use.
  • Collaborate on architecture, reliability, and performance across teams.
  • Spec out and implement features with a product-minded approach.
  • Improve cost, performance, and developer experience in data pipelines.

Skills

Backend engineering
Distributed systems
Asynchronous workflows
Product thinking
Customer focus

Job description

Hightouch is seeking a senior backend engineer to join the Control Plane team, focused on enterprise onboarding, governance, and scalable deployments. You’ll work on backend, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows with strong product sense and customer impact.

The role emphasizes architecture, reliability, and scalable access control, with a remote-first policy and meaningful equity compensation. This is a senior role with impact across the platform.

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