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Senior Backend Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Fri, Nov 13, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To enhance backend performance and reliability, the full-time Senior Backend Engineer will deliver new features, refactor legacy code, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fully remote capacity across the United States.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build and ship features end-to-end across the platform, ensuring quality through testing and deployment
  • Improve maintainability by refactoring legacy areas and reducing technical debt with incremental changes
  • Own reliability and performance by diagnosing production issues, fixing bugs, and enhancing user experience
Required Qualifications
  • 5-7+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency with Java and experience with another programming language
  • Experience working with and modernizing legacy codebases
  • Strong automated testing experience
  • Dedication to writing clean, maintainable, and high-performance code

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