Staff Backend Engineer | Remote, US & Canada

Role overview

Provide senior technical direction for backend engineering, shaping the architecture, infrastructure, and engineering practices that support complex financial workflows. Lead initiatives across teams from early design through deployment and ongoing reliability, while mentoring engineers and helping improve how the organization builds and operates software.

Responsibilities - Set architectural direction and establish reusable patterns and standards for backend systems. - Design and evolve multi-tenant data access, distributed task orchestration, asynchronous pipelines, and enterprise integrations. - Turn ambiguous product needs into end-to-end technical solutions, including infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and documentation. - Improve production observability through logging, metrics, application monitoring, and effective debugging practices. - Guide incident response, root-cause analysis, and durable remediation for complex production issues. - Mentor engineers and improve developer workflows, testing, CI/CD, and release practices.

Requirements - Typically 10+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of staff-level ownership and technical leadership. - Deep Python and Django expertise, including framework internals, performance tuning, and high-scale multi-tenant systems. - Strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with experience resolving concurrency, asynchronous processing, and database performance problems. - Experience defining engineering standards, reusable abstractions, internal tools, and practices that improve team delivery. - Familiarity with dataframe-based computation such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy for data-intensive workflows. - Able to work across Engineering, Product, and Customer Success and explain complex technical decisions clearly.

Nice to have

Experience with relational and analytical databases, caching, message queues, task processing, cloud infrastructure as code, and AI-assisted engineering or production LLM workflows. Frontend familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript is also useful.

Benefits and work setup

The role is listed for the US and Canada, but the source says the position requires working onsite at a New York office Tuesday through Thursday. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible paid time off, stock options, paid parental leave, and a quarterly learning budget. Work authorization in the posted location is required; immigration sponsorship is unavailable.