This is a remote position.
What You'll Do
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Own the technical roadmap for backend services: reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export/delivery
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Drive architectural decisions across multiple interdependent services and data sources, and document them for the team
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Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, API design conventions, and observability
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Review designs and code from other engineers, and unblock them on hard technical problems
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Break down ambiguous requirements into a clear technical plan the team can execute against
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Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health; call out and manage technical debt deliberately
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Partner directly with product, QA, and other engineering teams to align on scope, sequencing, and dependencies
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Lead and propose ideas/solutions in cross-team architecture discussions and vendor/platform evaluations
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Mentor engineers on the team and help grow their technical judgment, not just their task list
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Hands-on Engineer: contribute code, especially for the highest-risk or highest-ambiguity problems
What We're Looking For
Required:
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12+ years building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal)
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Strong hands-on experience with a modern backend language and framework (e.g. Java/Spring, Kotlin, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or Go)
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Track record of making and owning architectural decisions across multiple services, not just within one
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Solid relational database experience (schema design, migrations, query performance) at a systems-design level
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Experience designing REST APIs and service contracts that other teams build against
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Experience with cloud platforms, GCP preferred
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Strong understanding of authentication/authorization patterns and security tradeoffs in distributed systems
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Experience coordinating work and dependencies across multiple engineers and multiple services
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Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization, including improving pipeline health and delivery velocity
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Strong background in building scalable, distributed applications and platforms
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Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Strongly preferred:
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Experience integrating with BI/analytics or data-warehouse platforms
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Background in regulated or audit-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance, insurance) where data lineage and correctness are strict requirements
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Experience leading a system through a migration or major architectural shift
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Experience designing asynchronous or scheduled processing for large data volumes
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Experience establishing role-based access control and data visibility enforcement at a system-design level
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Experience mentoring engineers and running technical planning (grooming, estimation, design reviews)
Nice to have:
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Experience with distributed caching or session/token stores
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Enough frontend familiarity to review API design from the consumer's perspective
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Experience building out observability and logging practices for a team, not just using them
Workiy provides digital solutions and staffing services, utilizing our patented delivery model and a unique and flexible, client-centric approach to tackling technology's biggest challenges. We don’t have “clients” we have partners! Our mission is to enable your talented teams and amazing systems to assist your business in optimally achieving its goals. The Workiy team, brings to the table, more than 20+ years of experience in the technology industry across many verticals in both the private and public sector.
