Senior Backend Engineer

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on complex distributed systems and have deep experience with backend APIs, relational databases, and event-driven architectures. You’ll build high-performance, reliable solutions across cloud-native platforms and global infrastructure for a fast-scaling, commerce-driven company.

Responsibilities

Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Fal's commerce platform

Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs

Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems

Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure

Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance

Requirements

5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices

Expert-level programmer in one or more of Python, Go, Or Rust

Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI / CD pipelines.

Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems a plus

Experience with Kubernetes, or containers a plus

Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus

What we offer at fal :

Interesting and challenging work

Competitive salary and equity

Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

A lot of learning and growth opportunities

We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.

Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

Regular team events and offsite

Compensation :

$180,000 - $250,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package

Location :

We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.

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