**STAFF BACKEND ENGINEER \- REMOTE** **Job Objective:** We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to be the technical leader and architect of our backend systems. As one of the first engineering hires, you'll own the entire backend architecture—from foundational infrastructure and API design to AI\-driven data pipelines and system scalability. This is a tech lead role: you'll set technical direction, mentor future backend hires, and establish the engineering culture and standards that will scale with the company. **Requirements:** B.S in Computer Science or equivalent Experience 7\+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 2\+ years in a technical lead, staff, or principal role at a high\-growth startup or product company. Leadership: Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and making architectural decisions that scale. Expert in Python with deep understanding of performance, concurrency, and design patterns. English Fluent **Responsibilities:** Technical Leadership \& Architecture: Own the entire backend architecture from day one—make the critical decisions on frameworks, databases, infrastructure, and patterns Define technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and deployment Lead system design for complex problems involving data ingestion, LLM orchestration, and real\-time analytics Mentor and guide future backend engineers as the team grows (you'll likely hire and lead 2\-3 backend engineers in your first year) Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve velocity, reliability, or capabilities Hands\-On Development: Build and scale core backend systems to ingest, clean, and serve structured data at scale Design clean, performant APIs to power our client portal, data tools, and internal services Architect event\-driven systems and asynchronous pipelines (queues, pub/sub) for reliability and scale Own our infrastructure including CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and IaC (Terraform, AWS). **Perks** Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Modality: Full\-time, Contractor, Remote in Mexico, Colombia or Argentina Salary: $96,000 to $108,000 USD net annually Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completo, Por tiempo indeterminado Sueldo: Hasta $155,000\.00 al mes Experiencia: * Sr Backend Engineer: 5 años (Obligatorio) * Python: 5 años (Obligatorio) Idioma: * Ingles Fluido (Obligatorio) Lugar de trabajo: Empleo remoto