Alpha is looking to scale the reliability, performance, and architectural maturity of its backend systems to support product growth and reach billions of users.
Requirements
- Technically deep and systems-minded.
- You’ve led the design and implementation of complex backend systems with long-term performance, reliability, or cost implications.
- You can see around corners and help teams make architectural choices that stand the test of time.
- You provide thoughtful code reviews, unblock others, and model how to navigate ambiguity.
- You teach patterns, not just fixes.
- You know how to bring clarity without slowing teams down.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of backend systems across APIs, data pipelines, infra, and service boundaries, solving real technical challenges beyond feature delivery.
- Invest in the growth of more junior engineers by reviewing architecture, pairing, and teaching patterns that increase long-term team velocity.
- Help mature service ownership, improve system design processes, and drive long-term backend quality through documentation, modeling, and systematization.
- Drive projects that reduce infra costs, improve incident response, or re-architect brittle systems—ensuring backend engineering scales with product growth.
- Partner closely with founders, product, infra, and client teams to make sure our backend systems scale with product ambition, balancing speed, quality, cost efficiency and stability in a fast-moving environment.
- Help shape how backend engineering is done at Alpha by not only by delivering critical systems, but also by mentoring others, codifying patterns, and raising the bar for technical ownership.
Other
- A mentor and multiplier.
- Comfortable in ambiguity.
- Cross-functional collaborator.
- You partner well with PMs, designers, and data scientists, ensuring technical decisions balance speed, reliability, and product impact.
- You communicate tradeoffs clearly and calmly.
- Low ego, high impact.
