About the role

Role Overview

Join Dispel as a Senior Backend Engineer working on complex systems across software, infrastructure, networking, and security. You’ll partner with cross-team stakeholders, define requirements, deliver high-performance services, and take ownership of reliability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation.

Key Responsibilities

Design, scope, and deliver complex end-to-end systems ensuring high performance and low defects
Collaborate with cross-team stakeholders to define requirements and deliver against business objectives
Identify problems early and drive solutions that meet production needs
Own reliability: monitoring, logging, and instrumentation for the systems you build
Mentor junior engineers, participate in code reviews, and contribute to technical discussions

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering complex production systems
Deep experience with production-grade APIs and services
Strong understanding of system reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization
Solid network fundamentals: routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls
Strong experience working with cross-team stakeholders with minimal oversight
Ability to communicate clearly (in-person and in team chat)
Willingness to accept failure/feedback, learn, and iterate
Strong proficiency in one or more: Python, TypeScript, Go
Hands-on cloud experience, especially AWS or Azure, including networking constructs (e.g., VPCs, subnets, security groups, private endpoints)
Strong understanding of cloud execution environments and how architecture impacts them
Strong understanding of network security principles and hardening
Experience across layers: application, database, infrastructure, or security
Strong understanding of databases, caches, queues, events, and workers
Comfortable using coding agents such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code

Nice to Have

Experience across multiple teams or roles (breadth that informs technical judgment)
Passion for learning new disciplines and understanding how teammates work

About Dispel

Dispel is a fast-growing tech company that builds complex systems spanning software, infrastructure, networking, and security. The engineering culture is collaborative and execution-focused, with expectations of owning reliability and influencing broader technical direction.