Senior Backend Engineer

YozmaTech is a global tech company that builds dedicated development teams for startups and product companies. Their client is a fast-growing startup modernizing procurement and purchasing management, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own features end-to-end and design backend services.

• Own features end to end and drive them from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, and follow up
• Work independently while collaborating smartly by unblocking yourself and asking questions
• Analyze and decompose complex work into clear, incremental steps without losing important edge cases
• Communicate and debate solutions by explaining complex topics simply and leading productive design discussions
• Identify and articulate tradeoffs across performance, reliability, complexity, and delivery speed to guide decisions
• Design and implement backend services including APIs, background jobs, and data flows across multiple domains and systems

• 10+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems
• Strong at debugging and refactoring across services, logs, and data
• AWS, with a heavy use of managed and serverless services
• TypeScript and Node for backend services
• Aurora Postgres
• Python for some services and data related work
• Integrations with third party APIs, ERPs, CLMs, and collaboration tools
• Experience taking ownership of technically challenging and evolving projects
• Comfortable working through ambiguity
• Clear communication in writing and in conversation, comfortable pushing back, asking questions, and exposing risks early
• Good at using documentation, experimentation, and AI tools to unblock yourself and accelerate work while owning correctness and quality
• Care about leaving codebases and systems in a better state and think about maintainability by default
• English — Upper-Intermediate or higher