Principal Backend Engineer

Scale-up SaaS

About the role

Shape the technical direction for a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform. You'll lead architecture decisions, mentor senior engineers, drive standards, and own complex system design challenges across a 50-engineer engineering org.

Requirements

• 10+ years backend engineering
• Track record of system design at scale
• Experience leading technical strategy and mentoring
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, data modelling, and API design
• Strong communication — able to explain trade-offs to non-engineers

Nice to have

• Experience scaling from 0 to millions of users
• Open source contributions
• Conference speaking or technical writing