Lead Backend Software Engineer Jobs

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same fou

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same fou

Location Details: Colombia, remote At GoDaddy, the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join Our Team... This role is for a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Colombia who will be a founding member of a brand new Sales Intelligence team within GoDaddy. We're building from the ground up to transform how GoDaddy does sales. Our mission: add intelligence to lead generation and assignment, and build the right tools so sales teams can focus on what matters most—bringing in new customers. This team will build greenfield solutions, optimize existing Salesforce workflows, and leverage AI to surface the right context at the right time. We believe in rolling out AI-powered features to real users, not just developing with AI tools internally. If you have the hunger to learn on the job and want to shape a team from day one, this is the opportunity for you. What you'll get to do... Design and build intelligent lead scoring, routing, and assignment systems that directly impact sales outcomes, while implementing AI/ML-powered features using LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval systems to provide contextual intelligence to sales reps. Develop Salesforce-based solutions (Apex, Flows, Lightning Web Components, integrations) and build backend services and APIs in Java and TypeScript that power sales tools and AI-driven capabilities. Collaborate closely with Sales, Revenue Operations, and Data Science teams to identify and deliver high-impact business opportunities. Own the full software lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, release, monitoring, and continuous Integration. Propose and drive engineering initiative

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled M

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Please submit your resume in English.

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Core Automation team within Platform , you'll architect and build the Agentic AI systems that are reimagining how Coinbase delivers customer support and manages compliance at scale. This team is focused on automating high-volume operational processes with AI, then building the primitives and orchestration platform that let every domain at Coinbase leverage those capabilities. You'll own the technical vision for production AI systems that directly improve customer experience, strengthen compliance posture, and drive outsized efficiency gains. What you'll do: Own the design and implementation of Agentic AI systems powering Coinbase's customer support and compliance automation Architect a reusable platform of primitives, orchestration tools, and interfaces that enable other teams to adopt Agentic AI for their domains Drive cross-functional alignment with product, compliance, and operations stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions Lead technical strategy for getting LLM-based applications from prototype to production, including grounding, hallucination reduction, and reliability at scale Mentor engineers across the team on system design, coding standards, and AI/ML best practices Required Skills and Experience: 12+ years of backend software engineering experience, with deep proficiency in Golang

ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a highly accomplished backend software engineer with extensive experience in leading and building customer facing performant backend services. You will be on the team that creates and expands Peloton’s e-commerce presence on the web, retail and other sales channels. You will be a hands-on technical lead on the team that will be working to build highly scalable and disjoint backend platforms and services for our users, both internal and external. YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON Be a hands-on technical leader with focus on delivery of small to large initiatives Guide the team to make strategic technical decisions that enable fast, reliable execution, and that maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders Work within an agile development environment with peer engineers, designers, and product managers on a daily basis to scope, develop and deliver a software experience that realizes the product strategy Be a part of a positive and inclusive culture that is hyper-focused on cultivating growth and learning for both engineers and non-engineers YOU BRING TO PELOTON 6+ years software development experience, including leadership over delivery of high impact projects Experience with Java, Kotlin, Python or similar languages Experience building and scaling out RESTful microservices Experience with large-scale event processing & messaging technologies like Kafka and Amazon SQS Familiarity with accessing, querying and writing to data stores like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, etc. Experience with Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes Experience in Unit Testing/Test Driven Development Experience in cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP Experience with mentoring junior engineers Working knowledge of GraphQL Experience working with DataDog or similar monitoring tools Strong desire to learn and mentor engineers, helping them achieve their highest potential An agile mindset that embraces iterative design Experience with end to

About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. You’ll write production code, design shared infrastructure, and solve technical challenges involving performance, distributed systems, and system reliability. You’ll also own how those systems behave in production: how changes are rolled out, how issues are detected and diagnosed, and how recurring operational problems can be addressed through better software and system design. This is a strong fit for backend engineers who enjoy complex systems problems and want a direct connection between the infrastructure they build and the experience of ChatGPT users. In this role, you will: Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely. Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow. Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads. Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact. Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational lea

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Safety Processing team. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring trust and safety across Discord, processing signals from user reports and automated systems to identify and remove harmful or illegal content from our platform. You’ll lead backend projects, provide architectural guidance, and help build scalable systems that protect our users. Your work will directly impact the safety of our platform and help make Discord a place where everyone can belong. To learn more about Discord Engineering, take a look at our engineering blog. What You'll Be Doing: Lead, design, and build scalable backend systems for processing safety-related signals, primarily using Python Guide and mentor the team through architectural and system design challenges, ensuring long-term scalability as Discord continues to grow Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build tools for content moderation and related compliance efforts. This includes in house solutions and vendors Implement and enhance ML/AI models and automation to improve efficiency in content moderation and decision-making processes Build solutions with an adversarial mindset, anticipating and addressing safety challenges such as malicious behavior and illegal content on the platform Drive workstreams and provide leadership to the team, mobilizing others to accomplish projects and deliver impactful outcomes What We Look For: Python Expertise : Extensive experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Python Architectural Leadership : Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to

MongoDB Search and Vector Search allows users to execute complex search queries and build RAG applications using the MongoDB Query Language. Our users are free to focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Toronto for our hybrid working model. Candidate Profile: 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software in a complex codebase Proficient in modern programming languages and techniques Experienced in developing distributed systems, cloud services, and SaaS products Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills; enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues and mentoring other engineers A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production You will: Build and design our integrated search platform, written in Java Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers Lead projects and own subsystems Help determine the team’s roadmap and the architecture of our system Success measures: In 3 months you’ll have contributed to the development of an existing project and completed several improvements or bug fixes In 6 months you’ll be reviewing code and project designs, and be an active participant in team meetings In 12 months you’ll have a thorough understanding of the systems the team owns and have led a project. You’ll have had a positive impact on our code, product, and team processes About MongoDB MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to cr

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Our mission depends on having a digital representation of the physical world - a map with all routing related (real-time) information. This is what makes Lyft different from many products: our products don’t just facilitate online interactions, they facilitate dynamic, real-world ones. Without mapping services, none of these real world interactions between people and transport can happen. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Pickup, Places and Search team within the Mapping organization that is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the Rider and Driver product for the Pickup/Drop off Experience. This team supports the backbone of Lyft’s search system, supporting millions of rides by helping our riders and drivers connect and reach their destination. Our focus is to ensure the pickup/dropoff experience is seamless by enhancing guidance and routing as well as the rider experience. Additionally the team uses map data and other signals to create new product experiences in collaboration with teams across Lyft. This team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that directly influence the product for all of our users. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting-edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched. In this role, you'll collaborate with other engineering teams, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers with rideshare focused mapping experiences. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best customer experiences Lead backend and cross functional projects to achieve long term goals as well as deliver short term roadmaps Lead large features from idea to successful execution and launch Own systems and

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Trust & Safety function at Lyft is dedicated to keeping every Lyft ride safe for both riders and drivers. We build and maintain the tools, features, and systems that deter bad actors, protect vulnerable populations, and reinforce trust across the platform. As an Backend Engineer working on Trust & Safety, you'll work at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and policy to ship high-impact safety features to millions of users. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Work closely with cross-functional teams and partner teams to develop solutions based on technology and business needs, and advance team’s goals and priorities Independently lead features from idea to positive execution and launch Unblock, support and communicate with internal partners to achieve results Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Utilize your expertise in Python, Golang, AWS to deliver robust and scalable solutions Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge, as well as on call rotations Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or relevant work experience 3+ years of software engineering industry experience Extensive experience in object oriented programming, ideally in GoLang or Python Experience in backend software development of distributed systems and concurrency Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners Benefits: Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits Mental health benefits Family bui

Atlas Search is a multi-cloud service that allows users to execute complex full text and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language . Our users are free to focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building the cloud-based distributed systems software responsible for the lifecycle of search indexes including: data ingestion, index building, partitioning, performance, availability, and backup management. Our product is quickly gaining traction with customers and we are making core architectural improvements that you will contribute to. This role is based in Toronto, ON hybrid. Successful candidates will have the following qualities: 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software in a complex codebase Experience developing distributed systems and cloud services Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with Java Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production You will: Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers Have the opportunity to lead projects and own subsystems Provide input on the team’s roadmap and help determine the architecture of our system Success measures: In 3 months you’ll have a solid high-level understanding of what our team does and how we operate.

Atlas Search is a multi-cloud service that allows users to execute complex full text and vector search queries using the MongoDB Query Language . Our users are free to focus on relevance and data retrieval instead of the machinery needed to search data at scale. Our team is building the cloud-based distributed systems software responsible for the lifecycle of search indexes including: data ingestion, index building, partitioning, performance, availability, and backup management. Our product is quickly gaining traction with customers and we are making core architectural improvements that you will contribute to. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco, CA for our hybrid working model. Successful candidates will have the following qualities: 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software in a complex codebase Experience developing distributed systems and multithreaded applications Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with Java Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues A growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production You will: Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers Have the opportunity to lead projects and own subsystems Provide input on the team’s roadmap and help determine the architecture of our system Success measures: In 3 months you’ll have a

About the Team API Enterprise Controls is part of the API Infrastructure organization and owns the platform capabilities that help developers, startups, and enterprises adopt the OpenAI API securely and confidently. We build the systems underneath our APIs and developer platform across authentication and identity, service accounts and key management, secure networking, compliance, auditability, observability, and operational controls. Our users are developers and teams running critical applications on OpenAI, and we partner closely with Product, go-to-market, security, and infrastructure teams to turn their most important needs into reliable, intuitive platform capabilities. About the Role We are looking for an exceptional backend software engineer to help define and ship the enterprise capabilities our API Platform needs to scale.; this is a product-engineering role grounded in deep backend systems. You will work across databases, streaming systems, request routing, authentication, and developer-facing APIs while bringing strong product judgment, developer empathy, and attention to the small details that make a platform easier to understand, trust, and operate. You will lead large cross-functional initiatives, work closely with Product and go-to-market teams, engage directly with sophisticated users, and carry ambiguous needs from discovery through design, launch, and iteration. In this role, you will: Own backend product capabilities end to end across authentication and identity, service accounts and key controls, secure networking, compliance, observability, and operational workflows. Partner with Product, go-to-market, security, infrastructure teams, and sophisticated customers to identify needs, shape the roadmap, and lead large cross-functional projects from design through launch. Design developer-facing APIs, system behavior, configuration, error handling, safe defaults, auditing, and notifications with exceptional care for the details that define a great dev