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The Browser Company · 4 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Services

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$225K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable, robust backend systems that are critical to Arc’s success.

Own large-scale, high-impact technical projects that cut across multiple teams and directly influence our product and company strategy.

Serve as a technical leader and mentor, providing guidance and oversight to engineering teams on complex technical issues, architectural decisions, and best practices.

Influence and contribute to critical architectural decisions, ensuring we’re always building with the future in mind.

Drive cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and engineering teams to define technical vision and ensure the backend infrastructure evolves to support Arc’s growth and product innovation.

Design application backends, APIs, protocols, data structures, and assess system design.

Design and implement backend systems to support core product needs such as AI inference (eg. via self-hosting LLMs), proxying to other services, and data syncing across devices.

Support multiple clouds and LLM providers for improved availability.

Design highly performant, resilient, and scalable systems that provide a high quality experience for users on desktop and mobile platforms worldwide.

Implement effective observability and monitoring for our backend services.

Identify opportunities to iterate on our infrastructure to improve efficiency, developer productivity, or reduce costs.

Qualification

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Required

3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, 6+ years of experience working on large-scale backend systems.

Demonstrated ability to lead high-impact, cross-team projects and influence architectural decisions at a company-wide level.

A strategic mindset, with the ability to see the bigger picture and align technical decisions with business goals.

Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure, with significant expertise in at least one of these, including proficiency in infrastructure-as-code practices and tools (e.g., Terraform).

Experience setting up monitoring and observability for cloud infrastructure, e.g. with datadog, and using these tools to deliver improvements.

Proficiency in a programming language like TypeScript, Go, Java, Swift, etc.

You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable.

We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% for dependents

401k plan

Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time, Monday-Friday

12 weeks of paid parental leave

$1,500 USD home office stipend

Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate