Staff Backend Engineer

21 hours ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Marlee Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

About the company

Fast-track your career with the Marlee Talent Pool. We're not just matching you with your ideal roles but unlocking your long-term career potential. Marlee goes above and beyond by identifying key strengths for your CV, helping you discover a career direction you might not have considered where you can truly thrive, and guiding you to develop those essential soft human skills that close gaps in your resume.

Marlee's innovative approach then places you in teams where you'll flourish. Using cutting-edge motivational science, we connect you with roles in teams and within organizations that make your heart sing and help our partners build their dream teams.


About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll manage complex architectural decisions and spearhead the delivery of practical solutions for customer issues as an integral part of the engineering team. You'll work alongside product managers, designers, and quality specialists, focusing on platform development, real-time incident reporting, analytics, and IoT implementation. 

What you'll do:

  • Deliver practical solutions suited for solving customer problems
  • Build and scale systems that can serve hundreds of thousands of users
  • Contribute to IoT initiatives, machine learning applications, and event-driven architecture
  • Guide and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of constructive feedback

What you'll need:

  • Experience with security, access, and permissions
  • Background in service-oriented/microservice architectures and experience with key/value stores and relational databases
  • Previous technical leadership experience, with strong foundation in backend technologies and associated frameworks
  • Be able to deliver complex features and requirements, and provide accurate estimates
  • Strong communication skills to articulate technical tradeoffs
  • Demonstrated ability to align business initiatives with company values and good practices

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