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Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY Full-time On-site $180k — $275k per year 09/07/2026 Job ID: 000124
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Backend Engineering Java Microservices RESTful API Design Distributed Systems

Summary

What you’ll impact

The company's backend powers real-time communications, storage of billions of user-generated clips, and ML-based feed and social features. The role involves architecting and building highly scalable, low-latency systems, designing critical APIs, evolving backend infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions for millions of users.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • You'll work closely with product, infra, and data teams to architect and build highly scalable, low-latency systems, helping design critical APIs, evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring other engineers, and driving technical decisions that impact millions of users.

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant time in production environments
  • Strong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience building scalable microservices
  • Deep understanding of RESTful API design and distributed systems
  • Relational databases: Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design
  • Experience building systems that handle thousands of requests per second
  • Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS preferred), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
  • Strong grasp of system design, architectural patterns, and security best practices
  • Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to drive cross-team projects

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