Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Growth Platform (Remote - US)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Growth Platform in the United States.

This role is perfect for a backend engineer passionate about developer experience, reliability, and scalable systems. You will build and maintain internal tools, APIs, SDKs, and backend services that empower multiple engineering teams to ship features faster and more consistently. Your work will directly impact user growth, engagement, and the scalability of systems serving millions of users worldwide. The role offers a collaborative, remote-first environment with the autonomy to define technical direction and influence best practices across the organization. You will have opportunities to mentor peers, implement automation, and optimize developer workflows while contributing to high-impact engineering projects.

Accountabilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain SDKs, CLIs, APIs, and shared services to accelerate delivery across Growth engineering teams.
• Develop internal tools and frameworks that enhance engineering workflows, automation, and deployment efficiency.
• Design and optimize scalable backend systems and databases, ensuring performance, security, and resilience.
• Produce clear technical documentation and onboarding materials for engineers using platform tools.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand pain points and translate them into reliable internal systems.
• Own reliability, observability, and performance improvements across core services.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to align on standards, tooling, and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for engineering excellence, automation, and maintainability.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including backend systems or developer-facing tools.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or Ruby for building scalable applications and developer tooling.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, or internal services consumed by engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and secure software design.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong communication and documentation skills to make complex systems approachable.
• Ability to operate autonomously in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building internal developer platforms or frameworks used across multiple teams.
• Background in observability, reliability engineering, or service instrumentation.
• Experience driving technical design across large codebases or multi-team environments.
• Familiarity with React or React Native, especially when building front-end SDKs or shared components.