Senior Backend Engineer, Customer-Facing R&D
Senior backend engineer on Apono's customer-facing R&D team, working directly with enterprise customers to gather requirements, design and build backend features and integrations, and ship them to production. Core focus on backend fundamentals and cloud-native tech (Kubernetes, Docker, major clouds), with Go/Kotlin/React/TypeScript as pluses.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, primarily in backend development, building production systems used by real customers
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals: APIs, distributed systems, data stores, integrations, and system design
- Strong communication skills: run technical discussions with customers and explain trade-offs in plain language
- Fast, pragmatic execution; can ship working software under a deadline
- Strong product sense; can take an idea to a polished, shippable solution
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities; can make and defend scoping decisions independently
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, and at least one major cloud provider
- Fluent English, spoken and written
Nice to have
- Experience working directly with customers as an engineer (customer-facing engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, or startup environment)
- Experience with identity and access management, IAM in AWS, GCP, or Azure, or security tooling generally
- Familiarity with enterprise environments: SSO, SCIM, Okta or Entra, on-prem and hybrid setups, and related compliance concerns
- Experience with Go, Kotlin/JVM, React, or TypeScript
- Previous exposure to sales-led or POC/POV-driven development cycles
Full description
Apono helps organizations securely manage access to cloud infrastructure and applications. Our platform enables teams to implement Just-in-Time and Just-Enough access across cloud environments, databases, Kubernetes clusters, SaaS applications, and other critical resources, reducing security risk without slowing developers down. Trusted by enterprises worldwide, Apono enables engineering and security teams to manage access at scale through identity-aware, policy-driven controls.
Recently acquired by 1Password, we're now building the next generation of secure access for people, systems, and AI agents.
About the Team:
CFRD is a unique team within Apono’s R&D organization that works shoulder-to-shoulder with our Customer Experience teams and customers. Our mission is to directly impact the business by helping close strategic deals, secure renewals, and drive expansion.
The team is highly customer-focused and owns the process end to end, from joining customer calls and understanding their challenges, to gathering requirements, designing and developing the solution, and delivering it to production. We prioritize based on customer and business impact and move quickly to turn real customer needs into scalable product capabilities.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about technology, enjoys learning new domains, and is comfortable working directly with customers.
You’ll engage with Security Architects, DevOps teams, and other technical stakeholders to deeply understand their challenges and requirements. You’ll then take ownership of the solution, from technical design and hands-on development through delivery and customer validation.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to combine deep technical work with direct customer and business impact.
What You'll Do:
- Join customer and prospect conversations to understand their environments, constraints, and what actually blocks them from adopting Apono.
- Translate customer requirements into concrete technical solutions, and present those solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Design, build, and ship backend-heavy features and integrations on fast POC/POV timelines.
- Productize what you build: not just the code, but the configuration, documentation, edge cases, and rollout that turn a successful POC into a scalable, supportable product capability.
- Prioritize your own work based on customer and business impact, in partnership with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Experience, and the rest of R&D.
- Feed what you learn from customers back into the core product and the wider engineering organization.