Senior Backend Engineer

Description

The company is an application security company helping organizations secure software from code to runtime. The platform provides visibility, prioritization, and automated workflows across the software development lifecycle, helping AppSec, DevOps, and engineering teams focus on the risks that matter most.

We are looking for a highly skilled and technically proficient Senior Backend Engineer to join our Customer Focus Group (CFG).

The ideal candidate combines strong backend development expertise with a broad product mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to bridge technical and commercial priorities.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand technical needs, challenges, and product gaps.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, sales, customer success, and management teams to ensure customer feedback is reflected in product development.
• Design, develop, and deliver backend features, integrations, and technical solutions that address customer needs.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues across architecture, infrastructure, performance, and scalability.
• Gain a deep, holistic understanding of the OX platform and help connect customer use cases to product capabilities.
• Contribute to backend architecture decisions, API design, system design, and technical best practices.
• Support customer-facing technical discussions by providing deep product and engineering expertise.
• Help improve product reliability, performance, scalability, and overall customer satisfaction.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment where technical ownership, collaboration, and customer impact are key.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience, preferably working on customer-facing or customer-centric products.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, or comparable backend technologies.
• Deep understanding of backend architecture, including microservices, API design, distributed systems, and design patterns.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services such as serverless computing, managed databases, storage, queues, and observability tools.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building and scaling systems that process high volumes of data.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver performant, scalable, production-grade solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across globally distributed teams.
• Experience working in agile development environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.