[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Meeru AI Inc

Role Description

The Staff Backend Engineer owns the application and API services layer: the services through which everything the platform computes actually reaches a person.

• Multi-tenant APIs, authentication and authorization, and the review and approval workflows where a controller accepts a result, challenges it, or sends it back.
• The computation layer produces the numbers. This layer is where a finance team sees them, interrogates them, approves them, and acts on them.
• Your services carry the same correctness and auditability requirements as the computation beneath them, plus the access control and tenancy guarantees.
• Every action taken through your services is part of an audit trail that sits next to externally reported financials.
• This is hands-on and high-ownership. You own major services end to end, set backend patterns alongside the Senior Staff engineers, and partner with data, AI, and product on the contracts between layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the multi-tenant APIs through which the platform's results are consumed.
• Design the service contracts between the application layer and the computation, data, and AI layers.
• Build the review, approval, and exception-handling workflows finance teams operate in.
• Build and maintain multi-tenant isolation at the service layer.
• Build the audit trail: who saw what, who approved what, on the basis of which result.
• Build for a multi-cloud-ready, multi-tenant-ready, customer-hosted deployment model.
• Own performance, reliability, and cost of the services you build, including observability and operational health.
• Set backend patterns, review designs, and mentor mid and senior engineers.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in backend forward deployment engineering, with significant Staff-level time owning complex production services.
• Demonstrated ownership of services in a multi-cloud SaaS environment.
• An obsession with correctness and traceability.
• Strong API and service design, including versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility.
• Practical security engineering: authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask; PostgreSQL and Redis; REST API design; Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform; SQL against Snowflake or PostgreSQL.

Nice to Have

• Finance, accounting, or fintech domain experience, or a genuine willingness to learn how financial statements are built and reconciled.
• Multi-tenant, customer-hosted deployment at scale.
• Supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 review.
• Building auditable systems in a regulated environment.
• Exposure to ML or LLM application patterns, enough to integrate them well.