Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core

About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer on the Everand Core team, you'll shape the backend that powers Everand's discovery, personalization, and core consumption journeys. You'll own technical direction, reliability, and cross-functional execution to move fast while maintaining quality. What You'll Do

• Set technical direction for the Everand backend: writing and socializing design documents, driving architecture reviews, and turning ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design.
• Own backend reliability and platform health, including staging, CI/CD, databases, queues, cost, and observability.
• Raise the ceiling for the team through PR reviews, mentorship, pairing, and by setting a high bar on design, testing, and ops.
• Be the Everand backend voice in cross-team planning, and the glue in cross-functional execution.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence while driving scalable, resilient, and observable systems that let teams move fast, simplify complexity, and deliver with confidence.
• Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Web, Mobile, and ML Engineers to deliver backend systems that support experimentation and a single source of truth across platforms, using data, metrics, and telemetry to uncover trends, resolve anomalies, and guide the team with clarity and foresight.
• Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the reading and listening experience. What We're Looking For
• Significant backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems.
• Clean, maintainable, and secure code in Ruby (preferred), Scala, Go, or Python.
• Keen eye for reliability and observability, and care about defining SLOs, implementing metrics and alerts, and debugging distributed systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale migrations or modernization efforts.
• Thrive in cross-functional collaboration.