Staff Backend Engineer - Privacy-First Platform

Cape; Virginia; On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health coverage (medical, dental, and视

Parental leave

Family-forming stipends

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Cape is building America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. We’re hiring experienced backend engineers who live and breathe scalable systems, Go, and distributed architectures.

You will own features across identity, provisioning, billing, and reporting, guiding migrations and re-architecture as we scale. Join a mission-driven team with autonomy, strong collaboration, and a pragmatic approach to shipping secure, reliable services.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend services.
• Hands-on with Go and backend architectures.
• Experience leading large-scale migrations or re-architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable backend services in Go.
• Own features spanning multiple foundational components (Identity, Provisioning, Billing, Reporting).
• Drive end-to-end design, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with Product, Mobile, SRE, and Design to shape infrastructure.
• Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend development

Queues & async workflows

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Data lake

Job description

Cape is building America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. We’re hiring experienced backend engineers who live and breathe scalable systems, Go, and distributed architectures.

You will own features across identity, provisioning, billing, and reporting, guiding migrations and re-architecture as we scale. Join a mission-driven team with autonomy, strong collaboration, and a pragmatic approach to shipping secure, reliable services.