Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Backend / Full-Stack)

About the Company

This high-growth technology platform is rebuilding compliance and business identity infrastructure from first principles. The product enables enterprises to accelerate onboarding, automate complex workflows, and eliminate operational friction — transforming compliance from a cost centre into a competitive advantage.

The company operates remote-first with high talent density, strong engineering culture, and an emphasis on ownership. Teams work with significant autonomy, design systems end-to-end, and ship quickly without sacrificing rigor. The bar for technical judgement, product thinking, and execution is intentionally high.

What You’ll Own

You’ll take ownership of meaningful product and platform domains, designing and delivering systems end-to-end across backend services, APIs, and (when needed) user-facing surfaces.

You will:

• Design and ship complex features across backend, data, and frontend layers
• Define patterns for building reliable full-stack product systems
• Own API contracts, data models, and service boundaries
• Collaborate closely with product and design to deliver complete user journeys
• Improve developer productivity through better tooling, abstractions, and automation
• Raise the technical bar through thoughtful design and pragmatic execution

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & System Design

• Design scalable backend services and domain models
• Define API contracts and service boundaries across product areas
• Make decisions around data storage, consistency, and performance trade-offs
• Shape deployment, observability, and reliability strategies

End-to-End Delivery

• Build features from data model through API to UI
• Implement background jobs, workflows, and asynchronous processing
• Work across multiple services and domains when needed
• Own systems in production, including iteration and improvement

Quality & Reliability

• Define testing strategies across services and layers
• Build observable systems with meaningful metrics and alerts
• Improve performance and scalability of critical paths
• Reduce operational complexity through thoughtful design

Technical Leadership

• Establish patterns used across engineering teams
• Guide technical decisions spanning multiple domains
• Mentor engineers on backend architecture and system design
• Contribute to long-term platform and product direction

What You’re Good At

• Strong backend or full-stack engineering background (minimum of 4yrs+)
• Experience working in complex domains (e.g. fintech, compliance, identity, workflow engines, data-heavy products)
• Deep understanding of APIs, service design, and data modeling
• Solid database knowledge (Postgres or equivalent), including performance and schema design
• Experience building distributed systems, background jobs, and asynchronous workflows
• Comfortable working across the stack when needed (React + TypeScript or similar)
• Strong product sense — balancing usability, scalability, and reliability
• Clear technical communication and ability to influence decisions

What Sets You Apart

• You’ve owned complex systems end-to-end
• You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and defining structure
• You bias toward simple, durable architecture over novelty
• You think in domains, boundaries, and long-term maintainability
• You raise the bar for engineers around you