Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

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New York / $155000 - $225000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$155000 - $225000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
Location: New York City - Tribeca (4 days onsite)
Salary: $155,000 - $225,000 + Equity + Benefits

Join a high-growth technology business that is transforming a large, traditional industry through innovative software. This is an opportunity to take ownership of meaningful products, influence technical direction, and work closely with Product and Design teams to deliver solutions that directly impact customers at scale. If you enjoy building scalable backend systems in a collaborative, fast-moving environment, this role offers both challenge and career growth.

The Company
They are a venture-backed technology company building a modern platform that empowers independent businesses to grow and succeed. Their product combines software, marketplace capabilities, and operational tools to create a seamless experience for both service providers and end customers.

Having experienced significant growth, they continue to invest heavily in their engineering function and technology platform. Their culture promotes ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, enabling engineers to make a visible impact on both product and business outcomes.

The Role
As a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling core platform capabilities.

Responsibilities include:
  • Designing and developing backend services using Python and Django
  • Building and maintaining scalable REST APIs for customer-facing products
  • Contributing to system architecture decisions and technical strategy
  • Developing solutions across onboarding, booking, workflow, and operational platforms
  • Working closely with Product and Design teams to shape and deliver new features
  • Improving platform performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Integrating with third-party services and external platforms
  • Supporting best practices for code quality, testing, and maintainability
  • Taking ownership of projects from concept through to production deployment
Your Skills & Experience
  • Strong commercial experience developing backend applications with Python
  • Experience building production systems with Django or similar web frameworks
  • Expertise in designing and delivering REST APIs
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable application architecture
  • Experience working with relational databases and ORM technologies
  • Ability to translate business problems into technical solutions
  • Experience owning projects through design, implementation, and deployment
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Background working within product-led technology businesses, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, or high-growth technology environments
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies is beneficial
  • Exposure to Kubernetes is advantageous but not essential
What They Offer
  • Clear progression opportunities at Senior and Staff level
  • High levels of ownership and technical autonomy
  • Collaborative engineering culture with close cross-functional partnership
  • Opportunity to work on modern Python and Django technologies at scale
  • Exposure to complex technical challenges within a rapidly growing business
How to Apply
If you are a Backend Engineer with strong Python and Django experience looking to make a significant impact in a product-focused technology company, please apply today.

CONTACT

Lewis Jolly

Recruitment Consultant

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