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Senior/Lead Backend Engineer
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[Hiring] Senior/Lead Backend Engineer @Mimica
Mar 27, 2025 - Mimica is hiring a remote Senior/Lead Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: generous compensation + stock options. 📍Location: Americas, Europe, UK.
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Role Description
In this role, your mission will be to enhance and scale the backend systems powering the Mimica platform (MERN stack). This means designing and implementing a scalable architecture, developing and optimizing backend services and APIs, improving the performance and reliability of existing components, and taking operational responsibility for what you build. As a member of our early engineering team, you‘ll have the opportunity to shape our technical direction, processes and culture.
- Contributing to architectural decisions and collaborating across teams to identify and implement product improvements.
- Developing and optimizing a real-time backend service that enables multiple users to edit graph data and re-train AI models through their input.
- Creating libraries and building APIs in our Node.js backend to interact with the various ML components of the system.
- Diagnosing fault-tolerance and availability issues, as well as performance bottlenecks, and resolving them.
- Refactoring our components and services and producing documentation for your implementations.
- Providing feedback to peers through pair programming and code reviews and helping those around you to level up.
- Participating in hiring and onboarding new team members; taking on end-to-end project management responsibilities as we grow.
Qualifications
- Background in backend engineering, focusing on developing high-performance production software and scalable architectures.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience using modern frameworks and technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s) to build high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Practical experience in designing APIs and managing databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB), with a keen eye for query optimization and efficient data storage & handling.
- Firm grasp of distributed systems concepts and techniques – microservices, load balancing, caching, horizontal/vertical scaling and stateless architectures.
- Commitment to upholding high engineering standards, prioritizing code quality, maintainability, reliability, and security.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills – methodically decomposing systems to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes and implement effective solutions.
- Drive to continually develop your skills, improve team processes and reduce debt.
- Fluency in English, with effective communication skills – articulating complex ideas, concepts, and trade-offs clearly.
Requirements
- Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and monitoring.
- Experience working within a high-impact Startup/Scale-up environment – delivering value quickly and iteratively.
- Active interest in AI, automation, or related fields.
Benefits
- Generous compensation, aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills.
- Health benefits and ample paid time off.
- Flexible schedules and location.
- Start-to-finish project ownership.
- Opportunity to contribute to projects that will change the future of work.
Location
This is a fully remote position. You can be based anywhere in the UK, Americas, or Europe within a UTC-6 to UTC+1 timezone.
What we offer
- Generous compensation + stock options — aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills.
- Distributed work: Work from anywhere — fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.
- Laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget.
- Flexible schedules and location.
- Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Health and retirement benefits.
- Annual L&D budget.
- Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials.
- Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work.
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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generous compensation + stock options
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Remote
Location
Americas, Europe, UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 27, 2025
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