Staff Backend Engineer - High-Impact Systems

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join our innovative team at Happening. As a Staff Backend Engineer remote, you will play a crucial role in shaping our technical strategy and tackling complex challenges that impact our extensive platform.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
• Analyze complex system challenges and create strategies for improving architecture, scalability, and platform efficiency.
• Drive large cross-team initiatives from concept to execution, influencing decisions and aligning multiple teams.
• Enhance system automation for scale, resiliency, and deployment.
• Build and enhance core platform components and shared libraries (AWS, Go, Erlang, Kafka) used across the organization.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand and drive improvements across the platform.
• Build on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to speed up delivery, scale, and resiliency.
• Grow the engineering community, building on existing processes and practices.
• Elevate engineering standards, helping teams operate more efficiently.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in a large-scale production environment.
• Experience in designing and implementing solutions on an organizational level, impacting multiple teams.
• Expertise in engineering high-quality, highly scalable software.
• A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Erlang).
• Strong system design fundamentals, particularly in distributed systems.
• Ability to analyze complex technical problems and develop clear strategies.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• A passion for creating user-centric, data-driven solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience in Fintech.
• Interest in Functional Programming.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Remote work flexibility.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.