Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Solace, you’ll own your product workflow end-to-end—from initial design requirements through deployment. You’ll architect high-quality backend solutions, move quickly, and see your work in production with live users regularly.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable services and APIs powering existing and new web application features.
• Architect and maintain robust backend systems, database models, and infrastructure for the platform.
• Analyze product requirements and deliver production-ready code with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Maintain system health: refactor, improve codebase, and ensure systems are robust and resilient.
• Support end-to-end delivery, including jumping into frontend code when needed to ship features.
• Write clear specs to improve quality and enable stress-free deployment.
• Drive releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence.
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in product and design to improve user experience.

What You Bring

• Startup experience and strong execution bias.
• 5+ years of backend development experience, with some frontend exposure.
• Strong fundamentals in API design, database architecture, and distributed systems.
• Expertise in TypeScript/Node and backend frameworks.
• Comfort contributing to React/frontend work when needed.
• Intuitive understanding of what it takes to build performant, scalable systems.
• Impeccable communication skills and ability to influence product direction.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; you learn from mistakes and take full ownership.

Nice-to-Haves / Stack Context

• Experience using modern backend frameworks and a continuous deployment workflow (implied by role responsibilities).