Staff Backend Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 6 years

Location: Remote (India)

JobType: full-time

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to work closely with the founding team in building a high-impact, scalable streaming platform. You'll play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing core systemsparticularly around stream processing and data storage. This is a hands-on role where you'll own services end-to-end, from design through to deployment and ongoing operations.

Requirements

• Partner with the founding team to build and iterate on a mission-critical product.
• Design, develop, test, and optimize key backend components of our streaming and data systems.
• Own backend services in production, including on-call responsibilitiesour engineers are responsible for the software they build.
• Continuously improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Proven experience writing scalable, high-performance backend code in Golang and Python (both required).
• Familiarity with observability and telemetry tools, especially OpenTelemetry .
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies to improve system capabilities.
• Independent, self-directed mindset with strong judgment on when to optimize vs. when to ship.
• Deep commitment to code quality, testing, and comprehensive documentation.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Golang
• Python
• OpenTelemetry
• Scalable system design
• Distributed systems
• Performance optimization