Attain · 1 day ago
Lead Backend Engineer - Frisbee
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expAttain is a company focused on empowering consumers by leveraging their data for modern financial services. The Lead Backend Engineer will serve as the technical anchor for the Frisbee consumer application, designing and building backend services that orchestrate product behavior and user experience while collaborating closely with mobile engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and own backend services (primarily Rust-based microservices) that power the Frisbee consumer experience
Own backend systems responsible for business logic, feature flags, and UX configuration that control mobile behavior and layout
Define and maintain clean, well-documented APIs and client-server contracts used by iOS and Android applications
Partner closely with mobile engineers to enable fast, predictable execution and unblock delivery
Act as technical owner for major initiatives from design through production
Provide architectural guidance and code review across backend and mobile codebases
Collaborate with Product and Design to translate customer needs into scalable systems
Participate in planning, prioritization, and delivery with a strong bias toward execution
Occasionally contribute to mobile codebases when needed
Help establish engineering standards and raise the technical bar across the team
Qualification
Required
strong backend engineering experience
enjoy owning systems end to end
making pragmatic architectural decisions in ambiguous problem spaces
excited to design and build backend services that orchestrate product behavior, business logic, and user experience
enjoy working closely with mobile engineers
comfortable defining APIs, schemas, and data models that power data-driven mobile clients
value clear communication, strong engineering judgment, and constructive feedback
interested in growing into broader technical leadership over time
Preferred
6+ years of experience building and owning backend systems in production environments
Strong experience designing APIs, service boundaries, and data models
Experience evolving complex systems and working with microservice or service-oriented architectures
Experience operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience working closely with iOS and Android engineering teams
Familiarity with backend- or configuration-driven client architectures
Experience with gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
Experience with relational databases
Understanding of mobile performance characteristics and constraints
Exposure to React Native
Experience integrating third-party SDKs (e.g., analytics, scanning, CRM)
Company
Attain
Attain is an outcomes driven platform enabling marketers with better data to achieve their goals
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$92.95MKey Investors
Mercato PartnersLightbank
2022-11-01Series B· $25M
2021-08-12Series A· $60M
2020-11-05Seed· $4M
Leadership Team
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Brandon Ricciardi
Chief Commercial Officer
Colette Freeman
Chief People & Administrative Officer
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