Senior Backend Engineer: Scale APIs & Systems

Goatgroup; United States; On-site; USD 132,000 - 183,400; Full time

Job summary

GOAT Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to craft scalable backend systems and extend our API for a growing fashion marketplace. You will work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to break down work, implement solutions, and ensure robust testing.

This role emphasizes architecture, security, performance, and mentoring teammates across squads. You will interface with our PostgreSQL cluster, leverage Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, and apply AWS practices while

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications.
• Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services.
• Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning.
• Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
• Extend our API and back-end systems
• Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
• Add to and improve our testing environment
• Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
• Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be part of an on-call rotation
• Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows

Skills

4+ years of engineering experience

API and database design opinions

Deployment migrations experience

Ruby on Rails with Sorbet

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

GOAT Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to craft scalable backend systems and extend our API for a growing fashion marketplace. You will work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to break down work, implement solutions, and ensure robust testing.

This role emphasizes architecture, security, performance, and mentoring teammates across squads. You will interface with our PostgreSQL cluster, leverage Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, and apply AWS practices while