Staff Backend Engineer

Job not on LinkedIn

🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 35%

What it means: the chance that no one is really hiring for this job.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Future

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1985

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Marketing • Travel

Future is home to the world's top specialist media brands, reaching 1 in 3 adults online in the US and the UK. The company connects people to their passions through high-quality content and innovative technology. It is committed to making a positive societal impact and ensuring a sustainable future for both the planet and communities.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and test APIs for new products, features, and services • Maintain and optimize existing systems, emphasizing database-related performance • Collaborate with engineers across the stack and cross-functional stakeholders • Keep current with technologies and industry best practices, and encourage fellow engineers to do so • Serve as on-call engineer approximately one week per month, triaging incoming issues during non-working hours • Build core services, data pipelines, business systems, developer operations, and customer-facing features • Deliver APIs, infrastructure, and scalability across product initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of production development experience specifically working on backend/API • Strong knowledge of Go, AWS, Docker (ECS), and Postgres (RDS) • Proven ability to use software quality measures including unit/integration testing, monitoring, and alerting • Experience managing Docker-based microservice architecture • Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment • Strong product thinking focused on end-user experience • Scrappiness and pragmatism in balancing engineering excellence with velocity • Adaptability to shifting priorities and a track record of focusing development on what matters • Nice to have: experience with ETL and optimized database performance intuition

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity: Meaningful equity package • Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance • Tax savings/advantaged savings accounts • 401(k) plan • Flexible Paid Time Off / flexible PTO • Future Membership: free access to the platform • Monthly health, wellness, and fitness stipend • Mental health platform and therapy support • Reimbursement for medical travel • Annual learning and development stipend/budget for courses, conferences, coaching, and tools • Remote-first work with no travel required

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume