Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sperton is a global recruitment and consulting firm, and they are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join a high-growth technology company redefining the digital marketplace experience. In this role, you will own large-scale backend architecture, influence technical direction, and help shape a platform used by millions of customers.
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Lead the evolution of container-based infrastructure running on AWS EKS (Kubernetes)
- Drive monolith-to-microservices migration initiatives while maintaining production stability
- Architect backend systems supporting high-volume consumer transactions and marketplace functionality
- Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams on end-to-end feature delivery
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, observability, and system performance
- Build new backend services supporting expansion into additional marketplace categories
- Utilize modern AI-assisted development tools and internal engineering workflows to improve development efficiency
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions
Skills
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Strong professional experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes/EKS
- Experience migrating or building microservices within containerized environments
- Background building consumer-facing products, online marketplaces, eCommerce platforms, gaming platforms, or other high-traffic transactional systems
- Strong system design skills with experience leading architecture decisions
- Comfortable working in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments with significant ownership
- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies as part of the development workflow
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Marketplace or eCommerce platform experience
- Redis, Docker, Terraform, BullMQ, Datadog, Sentry, LaunchDarkly, or Stripe
- Experience scaling platforms processing millions or billions of transactions
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
- Hybrid work environment in San Francisco with a collaborative engineering team
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