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Title of Role: Staff Backend Engineer

Location: New York City, NY (Flatiron District)

Company Stage of Funding: Not specified

Office Type: Onsite — 5 Days/Week

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 Base + Equity

Employment Type: Full-Time

Company Description

Our client is a technology company building a modern corporate access platform for investment banks and financial institutions.

The platform brings together CRM functionality, email communications, event management, reporting, customer data integrations, and AI-powered meeting allocation into a unified system.

As the platform scales, the engineering team is tackling increasingly complex backend challenges involving high-throughput processing, relational databases, distributed services, enterprise integrations, and data infrastructure.

The company is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to take technical ownership of its most critical backend systems and help shape the architecture supporting its next phase of growth.

What You Will Do

• Architect, build, and scale high-throughput backend systems supporting email delivery, reporting, calendars, and customer data integrations.
• Own complex backend initiatives end-to-end, from system design through implementation, deployment, and production operations.
• Develop reliable, scalable services using Java, Spring Boot, or comparable backend technologies.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, including multi-tenant schemas, partitioning, and query performance.
• Build and operate production infrastructure on AWS.
• Improve system scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Design data pipelines and backend infrastructure supporting the company's evolving AI capabilities.
• Make architectural decisions involving databases, distributed processing, integrations, and system performance.
• Collaborate with engineers and company leadership to solve challenging technical problems.
• Remain actively involved in hands-on coding while providing technical direction on major backend projects.
• Use modern AI engineering tools to improve development workflows and engineering productivity.

Ideal Candidate Background

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, or a comparable production backend stack.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing and optimizing multi-tenant database architectures, partitioning strategies, and complex queries.
• Strong production experience with AWS.
• Demonstrated ownership of large, technically complex backend systems.
• Experience designing scalable, high-throughput systems and enterprise integrations.
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills.
• Proven ability to independently drive major technical initiatives while remaining hands-on.
• Experience across multiple substantial engineering roles or projects with clear individual contributions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted engineering tools beyond basic test generation.
• Able to work onsite in New York City five days per week.

Preferred

• Experience building email delivery, calendar, CRM, reporting, or enterprise integration systems.
• Experience with asynchronous processing, messaging systems, and distributed architectures.
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL performance optimization and schema design.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines.
• Experience supporting AI-powered products through backend and data infrastructure.
• Previous Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Tech Lead, or senior IC experience.
• Experience working in high-ownership startup or growth-stage environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• $250,000–$300,000 base salary
• Equity compensation
• Direct collaboration with the co-founder and CIO
• Significant ownership over backend architecture and technical direction
• Opportunity to shape infrastructure supporting emerging AI capabilities
• Hands-on senior individual contributor position
• Onsite office in Manhattan's Flatiron District

Visa sponsorship is generally not preferred for this opening and would require confirmation with the hiring team.