Position Details

Salary $50K – $300K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 5+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Lead Backend Engineer responsible for architecture and orchestration of high-scale backend systems, APIs, and data workflows. The role centers on building scalable, reliable backend services and driving technical decisions.

Key Responsibilities

API design & documentation – Building clean contracts for intake, payments, and document automation integrations
Database architecture & optimization – High-volume workflows, audit trails, query performance
Async task processing & queuing – Reliable background systems for document generation, AI agent invocations, payments reconciliation
API design & documentation
Leadership in architecture decisions

Technical Overview

Scope includes Python-based backend development, API-first design, async processing, and robust database architecture for high-scale workloads, with a focus on payments and document automation workflows.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior backend engineer with 5+ years building complex, scalable systems, strong Python and API design skills, and the ability to own architecture decisions. They should excel at delivering high-performance backend services in a remote, fast-moving environment.

Must-Have Skills

Experience building complexscalable systems end-to-endStrong backend expertise and system design capabilityExperience with API design and documentationDatabase architecture & optimizationAsync processing and queuing

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience at high-performance environmentsExperience with AI/ML workflowsExperience with payments reconciliation workflows

Tools & Platforms

PythonAPIsAsync task processingQueuesDatabase optimizationAPI documentation

Required Skills

PythonAPIsAsync task processingQueuesDatabase architectureHigh-scale systemsSoftware architectureAPI designPayments reconciliationDocument automation

Hard Skills

PythonAPIsAsync task processingQueuesDatabase architectureHigh-scale systemsSoftware architectureAPI designPayments reconciliationDocument automation

Soft Skills

Strong backend expertiseSystem designExecutive communicationOwnershipCollaborative

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Architect and scale backend systems and APIs for high-volume, AI-driven workflows

Role Subtype Executive & General Management

Tech Domains Python, SQL / PostgreSQL, JavaScript

Keywords for Your Resume

lead backend engineersystems architecturehigh-scalepythonapisdocument automationpayments reconciliationasync processingqueuesdatabase architectureapi designbackendremotefull-timeruby on rails

Deal Breakers

Lack of hands-on backend architecture experience, Inability to design scalable APIs, Insufficient experience with async processing and queues

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