Senior Software Engineer, Monolith Platform

Role overview

Senior Software Engineer for the Monolith Platform, focused on evolving and strengthening monolithic backend systems that support mission-critical developer experiences at large scale. You’ll design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient, high-performance backend platform capabilities in a remote-first engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship scalable backend and platform solutions for monolithic systems
• Build and maintain APIs and integrations enabling communication between services and internal platforms
• Provide technical leadership via code reviews, mentoring, pairing, and engineering best practices
• Own system health and reliability, including on-call and incident response
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver robust, scalable technical solutions
• Produce architecture proposals and technical briefs; prototype to improve scalability and performance
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and continuous delivery
• Ensure production maintainability, observability, and quality through proactive engineering practices

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering with production-grade systems
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern languages: Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, JavaScript, or C++
• Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed/cloud-native architectures
• Solid knowledge of system design, performance optimization, and software engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps workflows, and automated deployment
• Experience with scripting for automation/tooling (e.g., Bash or Python) — preferred
• Familiarity with cloud environments and CNCF concepts — preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication of technical decisions
• Ability to collaborate in distributed teams and contribute to shared codebases
• Ownership mindset focused on reliability, scalability, and maintainability

Benefits

• $124,000–$329,200 base salary (depending on experience and location)
• Annual bonuses, stock grants, and performance-based incentives
• Remote-first: flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Learning and development support; generous time off
• Inclusive, ownership-focused engineering culture