DEUNA

Backend Staff Engineer

DEUNA

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoGraphQLPythonRedis

About the role

  • Design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems.
  • Architect high-availability APIs and distributed services.
  • Define best practices for reliability, observability, and performance.
  • Write high-quality, production-grade backend code.
  • Lead refactoring efforts and performance improvements.
  • Identify system bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions.
  • Design data models, caching strategies, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Provide technical direction across teams.
  • Lead complex design discussions and evaluate trade-offs.
  • Improve backend development standards and documentation practices.
  • Design systems capable of handling high-traffic and transaction-heavy workloads.
  • Define strategies for load balancing, scaling, monitoring, and failure handling.
  • Improve system instrumentation and observability.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer.
  • Strong backend expertise in: Golang and/or Python
  • Deep experience with:
  • Distributed systems
  • API design (REST/GraphQL)
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Strong knowledge of:
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • System design and performance optimization
  • Design patterns
  • Experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
  • Experience with caching (e.g., Redis) and messaging systems.
  • Strong understanding of security best practices.
  • Excellent communication skills. Native or fluent English. Spanish is a plus.
  • Nice to Have
  • - Experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
  • - Experience designing transaction processing systems.
  • - Familiarity with fraud prevention, payment orchestration, or financial compliance systems.
Benefits
  • Vacations and additional PTO 🏝️
  • Remote work from anywhere 💻
  • Economic support for health insurance, internet and cell phone line📱🌐
  • We all own DEUNA, we offer stock options 💸
  • Learning and development platform 📚
  • Multidisciplinary, diverse and dynamic team 🧡
  • Growth and career path 🚀
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
GolangPythondistributed systemsAPI designevent-driven architecturesdata structuresalgorithmssystem designperformance optimizationdesign patterns
Soft Skills
communication skillstechnical directionleadershipcollaborationproblem-solving