23h ago

Backend Engineer

Seattle, WA

$120k-$145k / year

full-timemidsoftware

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll design and scale distributed backend systems for a deep tech platform powering rockets and autonomous systems. Your core impact: owning performance profiling and debugging across Go and Rust services, and contributing to data federation architecture. This role offers high ownership in a small, ambitious team building the infrastructure layer for the next generation of hardware innovation.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Design and scale distributed backend systems
  • Own performance profiling across Go and Rust services
  • Build gRPC service interfaces and REST/JSON APIs
  • Work across SQL and NoSQL data stores

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 2โ€“5+ years of backend engineering with distributed systems
  • Production experience in Go
  • Experience with gRPC and REST/JSON API design
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL data stores

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Kubernetes in production
  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Background in ecommerce, fintech, or consumer-scale SaaS

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿš€ Work on deep tech projects like rockets and autonomous systems
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ High ownership and influence on technical direction
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Tight-knit team of high performers
  • ๐Ÿ’ก Build in the open with context-sharing and meaningful code review
  • ๐Ÿ† Shape the technical foundation of a fast-growing company

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Technical Phone Screenยท 60 min
  2. 2Take-Home Coding Challengeยท 120 min
  3. 3Onsite Interview (System Design, Go, Culture)ยท 180 min

๐Ÿšฉ Heads Up

  • ITAR requirement restricts to US persons only
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