Senior Backend Engineer - Platform & APIs

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend systems. You will design, implement, and scale APIs and services, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

The role emphasizes service-oriented architecture with RoR as a core capability, though prior RoR is not required. You will mentor colleagues, drive engineering best practices, and ensure observability and security across critical data.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional hands-on experience in backend systems
• Strong object-oriented design and coding skills
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience modeling complex real-world problems with robust data models and systems
• Experience supporting other engineers and acting as a tech lead
• Experience using Agile/Scrum methodology in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in a high-growth environment working with deadlines and milestones

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross functional team to design a next-generation platform to unlock new business capabilities
• Take ownership of designing and implementing APIs, systems integrations and backend services
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
• Instate best-practices observability and monitoring as “first principles” of all our services
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Skills

Backend systems

OO design

Data structures

Algorithms

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Go

Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

Kafka

GraphQL

Apollo

Redis

Kubernetes

Docker

CircleCI

DataDog

AWS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in New York City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on backend systems. You will design, implement, and scale APIs and services, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

The role emphasizes service-oriented architecture with RoR as a core capability, though prior RoR is not required. You will mentor colleagues, drive engineering best practices, and ensure observability and security across critical data.