Staff Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native, AI-Driven Systems

NetDocuments; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

HSA contribution

401K match

Flexible PTO

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

NetDocuments is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a backend engineering team. You will design distributed, cloud native systems that scale, stay fast, and remain secure as data volume grows across regions.

You will partner with Product, Design, and Platform Services to translate complex requirements into durable systems. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and push for improvements in performance, cost, and reliability, while embedding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production grade systems at scale.
• 3+ years providing technical leadership and influencing engineering direction and practices.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed, cloud native backend systems, ideally on AWS (services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and S3).
• Strong experience with event driven and service oriented architectures, including asynchronous processing, queueing, idempotency, and handling failure and retries.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural discussions and make technical decisions across services and distributed systems.
• Architect and build production grade, cloud native backend services and APIs.
• Design event driven, service oriented systems and data pipelines.
• Integrate AI powered services and emerging technologies that enhance how customers find and act on their information.
• Design for security, permissions, and compliance as first class requirements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Backend development

Observability

CI/CD

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS (ECS/Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB/S3)

C#/.NET

Python

Java

Go

Job description

NetDocuments is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of a backend engineering team. You will design distributed, cloud native systems that scale, stay fast, and remain secure as data volume grows across regions.

You will partner with Product, Design, and Platform Services to translate complex requirements into durable systems. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and push for improvements in performance, cost, and reliability, while embedding