Senior Backend Engineer

🔥 16 hours ago

🇸🇬 Singapore – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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BlueThrone

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

👥 B2C

💰 Seed on 2022-04

Consulting • Marketing • B2C

BlueThrone is a remote-first mobile app studio and operator that acquires, scales, and transforms product-market-fit iOS and Android applications into standalone companies. The team combines mobile marketing, product development, data science, and engineering expertise to drive organic growth—evidenced by over 80 million downloads, 22. 5 million monthly active users, and notable ARR growth in a short timeframe. BlueThrone emphasizes a distributed, agile culture and recruits globally to support its growth and app portfolio expansion.

📋 Description

• Design, build, run, and improve backend systems across multiple mobile products • Take problems from unclear starting points through architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration • Investigate systems not originally built by the engineer • Work directly with product, frontend, data, and other engineers • Improve existing systems and determine when rewrites are unnecessary • Respond to and help resolve production incidents • Understand system context, upstream and downstream effects, scaling risks, and engineering trade-offs • Document decisions, communicate directly, and focus on outcomes • Move between products, codebases, and technical contexts as priorities change

🎯 Requirements

• Usually 5+ years of backend engineering experience • Experience designing or significantly changing backend systems • Experience making architectural decisions and explaining trade-offs • Experience working with databases beyond using an ORM • Experience operating and debugging services in production • Understanding of infrastructure • Experience taking work from an unclear problem to a shipped result • Ability to learn new technology when needed • Ability to become productive in Go; production Go experience is useful • Strong backend experience in another language may be acceptable with evidence of quickly learning new stacks • Understanding of relational databases, schema design, migrations, indexing, and query behaviour • Understanding of distributed systems, message queues, and brokers such as Kafka • Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes • Understanding of cloud infrastructure and APIs • Understanding of observability, performance, reliability, and failure modes

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first work across countries and time zones • Equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion commitment • Reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process