Staff Backend Enginee

Cube; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Flex Days

Early-stage equity

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Job summary

Cube is seeking a Staff Back-End Engineer to serve as a technical North Star for our engineering organization. You will shape architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits that enable the entire team to scale.

Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you will be an strategic individual contributor across multiple problem spaces, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to transform ambiguous financial workflows into robust distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Staff-level impact and technical leadership
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures
• Strong ability to explain architectural trade-offs to executives
• Experience with Django internals and performance tuning
• Data-driven, finance-focused workflow experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Define architectural direction and engineering patterns across teams
• Own complex backend systems, deployments, and reliability
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and release processes
• Lead production incidents, root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
• Mentor engineers and promote psychological safety and continuous improvement

Skills

Distributed systems

Staff-level leadership

Python

Django

Observability

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Async/concurrency

Tools

CDK

Pandas

Polars

NumPy

Job description

• We are seeking a Staff Back-End Engineer to serve as a technical North Star for our engineering organization. In this role, you won’t just ship features; you will shape the architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits that allow our entire team to scale
• Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you will act as a highly strategic individual contributor working across multiple problem spaces. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to transform ambiguous business needs into robust distributed systems that power real financial workflows
• This role exists at a pivotal moment in Cube’s growth. As our platform expands in complexity and scale, we’re looking for someone who can elevate system design, improve long-term reliability, and help define what great engineering looks like across the organization
• You will take ownership of complex initiatives end-to-end, influencing infrastructure, deployment strategies, observability practices, and long-term system health. This is an opportunity to help build scalable engineering foundations, reusable abstractions, and internal frameworks that accelerate the entire team
• Define the Standard: Set architectural direction and establish engineering patterns that become the golden path across teams
• Own the Core: Design and evolve complex backend systems including multi-tenant database routing, distributed task orchestration, async pipelines, and enterprise integrations
• Modernize Workflows: Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices and LLM agent systems within production environments
• Ship Strategic Initiatives: Take ambiguous product goals and deliver them end-to-end, from infrastructure (CDK) and deployment to monitoring and documentation
• Observability First: Foster a culture of observability by default, owning strategies around structured logging, APM tooling, metrics, and production debugging workflows
• High-Stakes Resolution: Act as a steady technical leader during production incidents, guiding root-cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies
• Elevate the Team: Remove technical blockers, mentor engineers, and promote psychological safety alongside a culture of continuous improvement
• Scale the Org: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, release processes, and deployment strategies so teams can ship safely at speed

Benefits

• HQ’d in NYC
• Flexible PTO
• Flex Days
• Early-stage equity
• Health, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
• 401k with one of the top firms for companies our size
• Supplemental medical, basic dental, life, and disability insura

A Technical Strategist: You have clear, experience-backed opinions on distributed systems and long-term architecture. You don’t just solve today’s problem; you design systems that support years of growthEfficiency Minded: Early adopter of AI-assisted engineering workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, automated refactoring, or similar tooling) to increase velocity without sacrificing reliability or code qualitySystems Architect: Strong experience building and evolving distributed systems across cloud infrastructure. Comfortable debugging complex concurrency challenges such as race conditions, distributed deadlocks, async failures, and large-scale database performance issuesExperienced Technical Leader: Typically brings 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates who demonstrate strong Staff-level impact, ownership, and technical leadershipEffective Communicator: Able to clearly explain architectural trade-offs to executives, product partners, and engineers at all levelsPython/Django Expert: Deep knowledge of Django internals including middleware, database routing, management commands, signals, and performance optimization in high-scale, multi-tenant environmentsData Fluent: Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or Num to power data-intensive workflows and financial modeling pipelinesEngineering Leader: Proven ability to define engineering standards, design reusable abstractions, and improve developer velocity through internal tooling and frameworksNice to Have: Familiarity with FP&A domain concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflowsThe expectations above are meant to represent the ideal candidate, but if you don’t meet all of them and think you’d be a great fit for this role,