Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Marketplace

Overview

cloud-native observability platform with AIOps capabilities

Key Responsibilities

• System Architecture & Design

  • Lead the design of robust, scalable backend services to support marketplace transactions, billing, and integrations.

  • Drive adoption of distributed systems best practices, leveraging microservices and event-driven architectures across AWS and/or Azure.

  • Collaborate with the Senior Engineering Manager and product team to align technical vision with business goals.

• Hands-on Development

  • Kotlin

  • Proactively refactor, optimize, and improve existing systems for performance, reliability, and security.

  • Implement advanced observability features (metrics, logging, tracing) to ensure system resilience and ease of troubleshooting.

• Technical Leadership & Mentoring

  • Provide technical guidance to engineers, sharing best practices in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems design.

  • Collaborate on design documents, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to plan roadmaps, set technical priorities, and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables.

• Payment & E-commerce Enablement

  • Stripe

  • Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., PCIDSS) and maintain the highest levels of data protection.

  • Develop robust APIs and services to power seamless transaction flows for both internal and future third-party SKUs.

• Scalability & Reliability

  • Design fault-tolerant services capable of handling high-volume transaction processing.

  • Implement strategies for horizontal scaling, load balancing, and resilience in multi-cloud environments.

  • Leverage containerization (Kubernetes) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to streamline deployments and manage infrastructure.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive Backend Engineering Expertise

  • Kotlin

  • Strong track record of building large-scale, distributed systems, microservices, and high-traffic APIs.

• Cloud-Native & Distributed Systems

  • Demonstrated success in architecting applications in AWS or Azure.

  • Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, and real-time data pipelines.

• E-commerce & Payment Systems

  • Stripe

  • Comfortable building secure, compliant services handling sensitive financial data.

• Observability & AIOps

  • Knowledge of observability fundamentals (metrics, logging, tracing) is beneficial.

  • Ability to implement instrumentation that supports both engineering and business analytics requirements.

• Leadership & Collaboration

  • Capable of providing clear direction on technical decisions, effectively influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.

  • Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, balancing short-term feature delivery with long-term architectural integrity.

  • Strong mentoring skills: enjoys helping other engineers grow in their careers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Marketplace Expertise

  • Prior experience with marketplaces or third-party integrations, including API design for partners or developers.

• DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Security & Compliance

  • Understanding of identity and access management (IAM), secrets management, and compliance frameworks relevant to e-commerce.

This role provides the opportunity to shape a new marketplace from the ground up, influencing core architectural decisions and mentoring a dedicated engineering team. If you are excited to tackle challenges at scale, integrate cutting-edge payment technologies, and work on a cloud-native observability platform with AIOps capabilities, we encourage you to apply.