Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core based in United States.** This is a high-impact engineering opportunity for a senior backend specialist passionate about building scalable systems that improve how people discover and engage with digital content. You will shape the technical direction of a core backend platform supporting web and mobile experiences used by a global audience. The role combines architecture leadership, distributed systems expertise, and hands-on software development to deliver reliable, personalized, and high-performing products. You will collaborate with engineering, product, design, analytics, and machine learning teams to solve complex challenges and create meaningful user experiences. As a technical leader, you will influence engineering practices, mentor teammates, and drive innovation in a collaborative remote environment. ### Accountabilities: - Define and drive the technical direction of backend systems by creating design proposals, leading architecture discussions, and translating complex product requirements into scalable solutions. - Build, maintain, and improve backend platforms that power content discovery, personalization, reading, and listening experiences across digital products. - Own backend reliability, platform health, and operational excellence, including CI/CD pipelines, databases, queues, observability, cost optimization, and system performance. - Design and develop clean, secure, maintainable, and scalable backend services using modern programming languages and engineering practices. - Lead modernization initiatives by improving legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and increasing platform scalability and development velocity. - Establish engineering standards through code reviews, technical mentorship, pairing, documentation, and knowledge sharing. - Partner with product managers, designers, analytics teams, web engineers, mobile engineers, and machine learning teams to deliver impactful platform capabilities. - Drive cross-functional technical execution by acting as a backend engineering advocate in planning, prioritization, and strategic discussions. - Use data, metrics, telemetry, and experimentation insights to guide technical decisions and improve system performance. - Promote a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, collaboration, and user-focused engineering. ### Requirements: - Significant professional experience in backend engineering with a proven track record of designing and scaling distributed systems. - Strong programming experience in at least one modern backend language such as Ruby, Scala, Go, Python, or similar technologies. - Experience leading technical initiatives, defining architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or platform improvements. - Deep understanding of backend reliability, observability, system monitoring, performance optimization, and distributed system debugging. - Ability to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable software architectures. - Strong experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product, design, analytics, and machine learning stakeholders. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and align teams around shared goals. - Passion for building user-centered products and translating customer needs into effective technical solutions. - Experience with Ruby is a strong asset. - Experience with large-scale distributed systems, recommendation platforms, experimentation tools, feature flagging systems, or ML-powered products is considered an advantage. ### Benefits: - Competitive annual salary range of **CAD $179,000 to $228,500**. - Competitive equity ownership opportunities. - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage. - Mental health support and disability coverage. - Flexible remo…