Backend Engineer

Veda

full-time

Posted on: 10/16/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPythonRust

About the role

Design and build scalable backend systems powering Veda’s API and internal services
Own projects end-to-end — from scoping and design to implementation, testing, and production delivery
Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to turn technical debt into modern, maintainable, and highly available systems
Write clean, well-tested code, and maintain strong CI/CD hygiene
Deploy, monitor, and scale services in production using modern cloud tooling (AWS, GCP, or similar)
Contribute to system design discussions covering performance, reliability, and data architecture
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
Continuously identify and drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance

6+ years of professional backend engineering experience
Proven experience delivering production systems end-to-end (scoping → design → implementation → production)
Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, C++)
Solid understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (Postgres or MySQL), and service-based architectures
Experience with version control (Git), unit/integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems
Demonstrated ability to design scalable systems and refactor legacy components

Benefits

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backend engineeringPythonGoRustJavaC++REST APIsrelational databasesunit testingintegration testing

collaborationproject ownershipproblem-solvingcommunicationincident responsesystem designcontinuous improvement