England•United States
Remote
Senior
Full Time
💰$170,350 - $275,550
remoteAI-assisted engineeringbackenddistributed systemscloud-nativementorshiptechnical leadership
Requirements
- •8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems at scale
- •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- •Deep experience designing, building and operating production backend or platform systems
- •Strong programming ability in at least one production language, with evidence of becoming effective in unfamiliar languages and codebases
- •Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, relational or distributed databases and cloud-native infrastructure
- •A track record of leading complex initiatives that crossed team or organisational boundaries
- •Strong technical and product judgement, including the ability to explain constraints, alternatives, customer outcomes and business trade-offs
- •Evidence of influencing without authority and improving the effectiveness of other experienced engineers
- •An operational mindset that treats observability, resilience, incident response and on-call ownership as part of engineering
- •Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools critically while retaining ownership of the result
- •Clear written and spoken communication suited to a remote, async-first company
What You'll Do
- •Set technical direction for major backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure, Go and adjacent systems
- •Turn ambiguous product or platform problems into clear plans, staged decisions and measurable outcomes
- •Design, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs with strong security and reliability characteristics
- •Lead cross-team delivery, surface risks early and remove technical or organisational blockers without waiting for formal authority
- •Make pragmatic recommendations about when to retain, evolve or replace existing components, including the continued reduction of legacy Datomic dependencies
- •Partner with Product, Design, Security and other engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business outcomes
- •Improve observability, incident readiness, performance and service ownership across the Developer Experience estate
- •Improve engineering leverage through appropriate automation, AI-assisted workflows and controls that preserve human accountability
- •Mentor senior engineers, raise the quality of design and code reviews and create reusable patterns that multiply the team
- •Stay hands-on through implementation, debugging and the team's paid on-call rotation
- •Communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly in a remote, async-first environment
Nice to Have
- •Production experience with Go, Clojure or both
- •Experience with Spanner, Datomic, Kafka or other distributed data and streaming platforms
- •Experience with build systems, containers, artefact workflows or developer tooling
- •Experience evolving a platform, database or language strategy without disrupting product delivery
- •Experience building security or software supply-chain products
Benefits
- •Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- •Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
- •Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
- •16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
- •Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
- •PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- •Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
- •Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
- •Docker Swag
- •Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
- •Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
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