Staff Backend Engineer

🕒 July 1

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 €156k - €200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 41%

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WhyHireWrong?

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1 - 10 employees

👥 HR Tech

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

HR Tech • Recruitment • SaaS

WhyHireWrong? is a hiring and recruitment platform that appears to provide a web-based portal for employers and applicants to manage projects, applications, and user logins. The site references project listings, an application/login flow for existing users, and is powered by a technology layer (SIGL:IO), indicating a software-first delivery model. Contact details are provided, suggesting a service-oriented offering to connect candidates with roles or help organizations streamline hiring.

📋 Description

• Design services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops for core backend systems • Build reliable systems around fragmented, high-value data • Develop an intelligence layer to support better, faster, and more explainable decisions for insurers • Own business-critical infrastructure and drive projects to completion • Improve data completeness and decision transparency • Support products used in insurance workflows and enable automation over time

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving • Python experience; Python is the main stack, though strong candidates from other object-oriented backgrounds are considered • Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments • Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL • Experience with LLMs/generative AI and distributed systems is a bonus • Ownership of work and ability to drive projects to completion with minimal oversight • Proactive communication and stakeholder updates • Comfort with experimentation, measuring results, and iterating quickly

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant equity options package • 20 days of PTO a year • Global team offsites • Healthy living/gym stipend • Mobile phone bill stipend • Continuing education credits