Senior Backend Engineer – Remote Poland with Autonomy

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 47,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Poland

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote role based in Poland. You will design and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that support a large, distributed user base, with substantial autonomy and influence on architectural direction.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to ship end-to-end features, participate in reviews and architectural discussions, and drive improvements in performance, reliability, and observability.

Qualifications

• Several years of senior backend experience.
• Proficient with modern backend languages/frameworks.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD.
• Strong testing, monitoring, and production reliability skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services handling production-scale traffic.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end features.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and planning.
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing services.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote role based in Poland. You will design and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that support a large, distributed user base, with substantial autonomy and influence on architectural direction.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to ship end-to-end features, participate in reviews and architectural discussions, and drive improvements in performance, reliability, and observability.