Staff Backend Architect: API Platform + Stock Options

Signifyd; United States; A distancia; USD 190.000 - 225.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Discretionary Time Off Policy (UNLIMIT

401K Match

Stock Options

Annual Performance Bonus or Comissions

Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)

On-Demand Therapy for all employees &

Dedicated learning budget through Lear

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

Company Social Events

Descripción de la vacante

Signifyd is seeking a staff back-end engineer to set the technical direction for the platform retailers use to integrate with Signifyd. You will own the architecture of our public-facing API and ingestion services, influencing roadmaps across teams and building durable foundations.

You will lead complex, multi-team initiatives, design scalable systems, and champion modern cloud practices with a focus on reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with business goals.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in software development with modern programming languages, experience programming in a functional style.
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams, and of carrying large, ambiguous initiatives through to completion.
• Depth in a platform or product domain that translated into distinctive business value, rather than breadth alone.
• Strong software design and architecture skills, including reducing complex problems to simple foundational components and designing interfaces that are difficult to misuse.
• Experience owning the long-term health of a significant system: testing strategy, operability, and reducing key-person dependency.
• Experience building distributed systems or public-facing/platform APIs at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Ability to influence without authority, and to communicate effectively with engineers and non-engineers alike.
• You use modern AI development tools fluently and help others do the same, championing responsible adoption while holding the line on quality.

Responsabilidades

• Define and deliver the multi-year technical vision for our integration and ingestion platform across multiple teams and competing constraints.
• Make the architecture-level technology calls, including build-versus-buy decisions and framework selection, and own the tradeoffs behind them.
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of the platform: drive health reviews, curate testing strategy, and ensure the systems stay maintainable by engineers with varying levels of expertise.
• Design systems under significant ambiguity, particularly those that many other systems depend on.
• Partner with product management, data engineering, and other engineering teams, influencing their roadmaps where a shared solution serves the business better than a locally optimal one.
• Raise the technical bar across related areas through design and code review, with particular attention to cross-team interfaces and API quality.
• Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive the strategy for addressing them.
• Serve as a role model and mentor for engineers across the organization, and champion responsible adoption of AI development tools.

Conocimientos

Software development

Functional programming

Multi-team leadership

Distributed systems

Public APIs

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)

AI development tools

Influence without authority

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Herramientas

GCP

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Signifyd is seeking a staff back-end engineer to set the technical direction for the platform retailers use to integrate with Signifyd. You will own the architecture of our public-facing API and ingestion services, influencing roadmaps across teams and building durable foundations.

You will lead complex, multi-team initiatives, design scalable systems, and champion modern cloud practices with a focus on reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with business goals.