Senior Backend Engineer — Remote, Scalable API & Pipelines

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladders is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a leader in the Telecommunications & Hardware space. The role focuses on building and scaling backend systems that support large-volume workflows, data processing, and reliable service performance.

You will work across API development, workflow orchestration, and cloud infrastructure to improve maintainability, visibility, and throughput. Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with modern languages.
• Experience with workflow orchestration or distributed task-processing systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput data processing and ETL pipelines.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain features in the core Python API with emphasis on performance.
• Operate workflow orchestration for large-scale workloads using tools such as Prefect or Temporal.
• Build scalable orchestration for concurrent workflows with visibility into progress and failures.
• Optimize complex SQL queries in production environments.
• Develop high-throughput data processing and ETL pipelines for raw assessment data.
• Contribute to AWS datalake architecture, including storage layout and query performance.
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Workflow orchestration

ETL pipelines

Distributed systems

AWS/Azure/GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prefect

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ladders is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a leader in the Telecommunications & Hardware space. The role focuses on building and scaling backend systems that support large-volume workflows, data processing, and reliable service performance.

You will work across API development, workflow orchestration, and cloud infrastructure to improve maintainability, visibility, and throughput. Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available.