Senior Backend Engineer, Platform
Actively hiring🇺🇸 Remote (US), United StatesRemoteFull-time$170k – $250k /yr5–9 yrs expBackend Developer
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About the role
Northwind Systems is hiring a backend engineer on a fully remote basis. You will design the data models, services and APIs everything else in the product depends on. The work is judged on whether it stays correct under concurrency, partial failure and three years of requirement changes, not on how quickly the first version shipped.
The US market for this role is deep and well paid, and candidates rightly compare offers carefully. The band below is the real band — we do not hold a number back for whoever negotiates hardest.
What the work actually looks like
Expect a mix of new services, careful changes to old ones, and migrations on data that cannot be taken offline. You will write the design note before the code for anything substantial, and you will be the person who says out loud that a proposed change makes a guarantee impossible to keep. The role is fully remote within United States, with a desk in the office for anyone who would rather not work from home.
What we look for
This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be expected to push back on requirements that do not make sense and to set the technical direction for your part of the product. We are looking for someone fluent in schema design and indexing who thinks about idempotency, transactions and ordering as a matter of habit. Depth in one server language matters more to us than a list of six.
Working at Northwind Systems
Core hours are set by the team rather than by the company, and we are deliberate about protecting long stretches of focus time. The range shown is the annual gross salary band for this role.
Responsibilities
- Design and build services, their data models and their API contracts
- Plan and execute migrations on live data without downtime
- Make failure modes explicit: timeouts, retries, partial writes, replays
- Instrument services so that production questions have fast answers
- Review designs and code with an eye on what breaks in a year
Requirements
- Several years building and operating server-side systems in production
- Strong database fundamentals: modelling, indexing, transactions, isolation
- Experience with authentication, authorisation and handling sensitive data
- Comfortable with containers and a real CI pipeline
- Writes clear design notes before large changes
Skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision cover from your first day
- 401(k) with company match
- Equity in a company with real revenue
- Paid time off with a mandatory two-week minimum
