Staff Backend Architect - Platform API & Infra (Remote)

eBSI Export Academy; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Time Off (Unlimited)

401K Match

Stock Options

Annual Bonus up to 10%

Job summary

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 and long-term health of our public-facing API platform and ingestion services, influencing roadmaps across teams.

You will mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and champion responsible adoption of AI development tools while partnering with product, data engineering, and other teams to deliver scalable, robust systems.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software development with modern programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the multi-year technical vision for our integration and ingestion platform across multiple teams and constraints.
• Own architecture-level technology calls and framework selection; justify tradeoffs.
• Maintain health, testing strategy, and maintainability of the platform across engineers of varying levels.

Skills

Strategic technical direction

Cross-team collaboration

Architectural design

Platform-scale systems

AI development tooling

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Influence without authority

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

SQL

gRPC

HTTP/REST

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Cassandra

Pub/Sub

Bigtable

Databricks

GCP

AWS

Job description

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 and long-term health of our public-facing API platform and ingestion services, influencing roadmaps across teams.

You will mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, and champion responsible adoption of AI development tools while partnering with product, data engineering, and other teams to deliver scalable, robust systems.