Backend Engineer

Design, build, and scale core services powering Veda’s platform. Own projects from scoping and design through implementation, testing, and production delivery. Write clean, well-tested code, modernize technical debt, and contribute to system design focused on performance, reliability, and data architecture. Deploy, monitor, and scale production services using cloud tooling, participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and improve reliability, observability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems powering the API and internal services
• Own projects end-to-end from scoping and design through implementation, testing, and production delivery
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to modernize technical debt into maintainable, highly available systems
• Write clean, well-tested code and maintain CI/CD hygiene
• Deploy, monitor, and scale production services using modern cloud tooling
• Contribute to system design discussions on performance, reliability, and data architecture
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for production systems
• Drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and performance

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Experience delivering production systems end-to-end
• Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++
• Understanding of REST APIs, relational databases, and service-based architectures
• Experience with Git, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud environments and containerization
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation or owning production systems
• Ability to design scalable systems and refactor legacy components

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Health coverage support for international contractors
• Flexible time off
• Remote-first work
• Paid parental leave
• Learning and development stipends