[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @BlueThrone

Role Description

We run a portfolio of mobile products used by millions of people. Our engineering team works across that portfolio. You won't join a permanent team attached to one app. You might spend your first few weeks improving the backend of one product because that's where the biggest technical need is. A month later, you could be designing a service for another, helping resolve a production incident elsewhere, or improving infrastructure used across several products. That's intentional.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who combines depth in backend engineering with breadth across systems, infrastructure, architecture, and product. Think T-shaped: deep in backend engineering, broad enough to understand the systems around it.

Your job is to understand the context, decide what engineering should do next, and build it. That means asking questions beyond implementation:

• What problem are we actually solving?
• What happens upstream and downstream?
• What breaks if usage grows 5x?
• What trade-off are we making?
• Does this need a new service at all?

We care more about how you reason about the whole system than how well you know one framework.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Ability to show examples where you designed or significantly changed a backend system.
• Experience making architectural decisions and explaining the trade-offs.
• Worked with databases beyond using an ORM.
• Operated and debugged services in production.
• Understood infrastructure rather than treating it as a black box.
• Took work from an unclear problem to a shipped result.
• Learned new technology when needed.

Requirements

• Production experience with Go is useful.
• Strong backend experience in another language plus evidence that you learn new stacks quickly can work too.

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.
• Work across countries and time zones.
• Document decisions and communicate directly.
• Focus on outcomes more than visible activity.
• Flexibility in priorities based on new information.

Company Description

To truly represent our vibrant and diverse BlueThrone community, we prioritize diversity and inclusion. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds.

We consider all candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity, or disability. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.