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Senior Backend Application Engineer

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Senior Backend Application Engineer in USA

  • Manifest
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build scalable, fault-tolerant web services and ETL pipelines.
  • Design high-performance systems supporting 10K+ transactions per second and hundreds of thousands of transactions per second.
  • Develop new platform features for critical organizations and optimize existing systems.
  • Create monitoring, testing, and deployment strategies for mission-critical services.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to resolve issues and integrate new technologies.
  • Help define engineering standards and recruit and onboard engineering colleagues.
  • Communicate technical concepts and product direction internally and externally.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on web services and ETL systems.
  • Demonstrated experience scaling high-volume, data-intensive systems.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud architectures.
  • Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, MongoDB, Go, and Python, with the ability to quickly learn applicable languages.
  • Experience supporting external customers through commercial SaaS or on-premises software products.
  • Experience in early-stage B2B SaaS technology startups.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience with MongoDB and other data stores, AI/ML, LLMs, model tuning, information security, red teaming, cybersecurity, and SCA, DAST, SAST, or other DevSecOps tooling.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with potential for hybrid co-working.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents paid at 100%.
  • Meaningful stock options.
  • 401(k) and retirement options.
  • Opportunity to join a well-funded, early-stage startup.
  • Additional benefits may be added, including retirement and holiday gifts.

Salary: $150k - $210k/yr

Manifest

At Manifest, we drive growth by starting in the messy middle — where customer consideration widens and momentum is at greatest risk. We focus on shortening that journey to close the gap between brand and performance, turning consideration into preference and driving results that ripple throughout...

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