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Staff Backend Engineer, EMEA
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Remote, Poland
Our take: The real work here is turning a huge monolith into clean modular systems while steering many teams through clear writing rather than authority.
If you get quiet satisfaction from untangling a large monolith into clean, modular systems that millions of people rely on, this is your kind of hard problem. You will shape technical direction across many teams through clear writing rather than title, mentor the engineers around you, and help define how AI-assisted workflows can be trusted in production. It is remote-first, asynchronous, and built for people who do their best thinking with real autonomy and few interruptions.
Needs
- systems design
- backend architecture
- monolith modernization
- written proposals
- quiet influence
- mentoring engineers
Rewards
- platform strategy
- impact across teams
- frontier ai work
- growing engineers
Demands
- on-call rotation
- incident escalation
- cross-team influence
- balancing tradeoffs
- written self-direction
Grows
- kubernetes operations
- root cause fixes
- coaching engineers
- systems judgment
Values
- remote first
- deep autonomy
- quality over speed
- long-term thinking
- engineering rigour
Drains
- tech debt cleanup
- governance guardrails
- endless alignment
- preventing sprawl
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