Senior Backend Software Engineer

Emerald Cloud Lab

full-time

Posted on: 4/2/2026

Location Type: Remote

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About the role

Design and develop highly scalable backend services, ensuring performance and security
Collaborate with designers, scientists and engineers to deliver products solving real challenges experienced in labs by our users
Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the product, what features to build, and how to build them
Ensure continual, high-availability operation of our services using modern reliability practices, including detailed observability and participation in an on-call rotation
Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot any performance or security issues
Advocate for healthy and maintainable software practices

8+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
6+ years in Cloud or AWS hands on development
Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL)
Experience working with startups or small growing companies.
Full life cycle experience with software product development
Degree in Computer Science
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization
Experience with distributed systems
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build tooling
Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend developmentCloudAWSSQLNoSQLKubernetesDockerdistributed systemsCI/CD pipelinesobservability

Soft Skills

problem-solvingattention to detailcollaborationadvocacy for software practices

Certifications

Degree in Computer Science