Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer at Stacksync — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Stacksync
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 80000–180000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re building a pretty ambitious product. It’s a complex challenge, but doable, and honestly a lot of fun.
We already have a product that our customers love, but we’re looking for more great people to help us make every part of it exceptional.
At Stacksync, we help companies run critical business operations across their enterprise systems. For example, companies like Just Ingredients rely on us to power and automate key processes such as order management.
What Makes This Role Different
We solve difficult distributed systems problems involving:
queues and event-driven systems
agentic workflows
large-scale data movement in real time
Postgres-heavy architectures
This is not a typical CRUD SaaS role.
We are building a category-defining infrastructure company and are looking for strong product-minded engineers who want ownership over real systems, internal platforms, and infrastructure products from architecture to production operations.
This Opportunity IS for You If
You enjoy difficult engineering problems
You care deeply about system quality and maintainability
You thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments
You enjoy scaling distributed systems
You think like a product owner, not just an implementer
You naturally take initiative without waiting for permission
You want to build infrastructure used by real enterprise customers that power critical operations
You are extremely ambitious
You want to work with a very strong technical team
This Opportunity IS NOT for You If
You only enjoy building simple CRUD applications
You dislike operational complexity
You need highly structured environments
You avoid ownership
You prefer maintaining existing systems over building new ones
You think shipping one feature per day is “fast”
You are uncomfortable with ambiguity or pressure
You believe scaling infrastructure is mostly solved already
Tech Stack
Python
React
Postgres
Distributed queues and workflows
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