Staff Backend Engineer: Cloud, Microservices, Scale Lead

Innovative Signal Analysis, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free SimpliSafe home system and pro‑监监

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Total rewards package

Job summary

SimpliSafe is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to guide the technical direction of User Systems Platform. You will lead the design and evolution of cloud-based backend services powering native mobile apps, shaping architecture for high availability and scalable performance.

The role involves mentoring engineers, owning complex backend systems, and coordinating with product and engineering managers to plan long-term roadmaps while maintaining high coding standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering leadership on staff level
• Design, build, operate distributed high-volume backend systems and REST/gRPC APIs
• Architect with event-driven patterns, domain-driven design, and containerization
• Cloud proficiency across AWS/GCP/Azure and CI/CD tooling
• Strong communication and cross-functional influence
• Experience with Agile/DevOps practices

Responsibilities

• Own design, review, and implementation of complex backend services and microservices
• Write maintainable code and tackle challenging problems
• Drive performance, scalability, monitoring, and operational excellence to meet SLOs/SLIs
• On-call rotation as first responder for team-owned systems
• Define long-term technical roadmap with PMs, manage debt
• Mentor engineers, conduct reviews, raise technical bar across backend org
• Lead cross-team collaboration, standardize shared services and technologies
• Drive technical processes and post-mortems for incidents

Skills

Staff level leadership

Distributed backend systems

REST/gRPC APIs

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

DevOps & CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Logging tools

Job description

SimpliSafe is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to guide the technical direction of User Systems Platform. You will lead the design and evolution of cloud-based backend services powering native mobile apps, shaping architecture for high availability and scalable performance.

The role involves mentoring engineers, owning complex backend systems, and coordinating with product and engineering managers to plan long-term roadmaps while maintaining high coding standards.