Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Atticus is a leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits, aiming to transform lives by providing legal aid. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Representation Pod, where the role involves owning backend systems, collaborating with product and design teams, and mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own significant backend systems end-to-end: set and hold a high bar for architecture, design, implementation, and production health
- Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements, not just implement them — we trust your intuitions and want you to have opinions
- You’ll bring 0-to-1 product thinking to an area where your work has a tangible impact on our client’s wellbeing
- Mentor engineers on the team, with particular emphasis on backend patterns
- Work across the stack as needed, everything from frontend UI work to data systems
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building production software, including meaningful time at a seed-stage startup or as an early member of a new product team at a later-stage company — with clear evidence of increasing scope and ownership over time
- Experience on a high-performing product team, working closely with strong PMs and designers to ship user-focused solutions
- Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs, with a high bar for data modeling and architecture
- Deep user empathy — you think carefully about the people using what you build, not just the technical implementation
- A track record of mentoring engineers and genuine excitement about helping teammates grow
- Experience with Go
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, & Docker
- Background in industries with complex workflows — legal, healthcare, or financial services
- Experience building products for consumers or two-sided marketplaces
- Experience evolving systems as teams and traffic scale
- Interest in developer experience, internal tooling, or team process improvement
Benefits
- Medical and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and their families
- 15 vacation days and ~20 paid holidays per year, including two weeks at end-of-year
- Free OneMedical membership
- $600/year internet stipend
- $1,000/year education and training reimbursement
- Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
- 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA
- Work remotely, and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues —somewhere between quarterly and yearly
- Retreats, offsites, and other ways to gather
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