23h ago
Backend Engineer
Seattle, WA
$120k-$145k / year
full-timemidsoftware
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ 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.
๐ฏ 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
๐ Requirements
- 2โ5+ 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
โจ Nice to Have
- Experience with Kubernetes in production
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Background in ecommerce, fintech, or consumer-scale SaaS
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐ Work on deep tech projects like rockets and autonomous systems
- ๐ High ownership and influence on technical direction
- ๐ฅ Tight-knit team of high performers
- ๐ก Build in the open with context-sharing and meaningful code review
- ๐ Shape the technical foundation of a fast-growing company
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Technical Phone Screenยท 60 min
- 2Take-Home Coding Challengeยท 120 min
- 3Onsite Interview (System Design, Go, Culture)ยท 180 min
๐ฉ Heads Up
- ITAR requirement restricts to US persons only
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