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$200,000–$215,000/yr
US

  • Lead teams responsible for the core systems that power the WeightWatchers member experience.
  • Build, scale, and mentor high-performing engineering teams that deliver a simple, fast, safe, and scalable member platform.
  • Partner closely with Infra, Product, Data, and Design to turn technical strategy into a reliable reality for millions of members worldwide.

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Australia New Zealand

  • Leading one of Canva’s core revenue infrastructure teams as part of their broader monetisation platform
  • Guiding the team through complex technical challenges, including scalable backend architecture, billing systems, and platform service decomposition
  • Coaching and growing backend engineers while fostering a culture of pragmatic technical excellence

Canva is a design platform redefining how the world experiences design. They have campuses in Sydney and Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, trusting their employees to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

$180,000–$220,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain backend-heavy features in a large, long-lived codebase
  • Own the technical health of a core product area, including performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Partner with the CEO/CTO to align on architectural direction and translate ideas into shippable solutions

ChartHop is an AI-native HR & Organizational Intelligence platform, connecting your people and business data in one technology to deliver performance, engagement, HRIS, compensation, org planning and analytics. As a small, agile team, they value engineers who are curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn.

$150,000–$215,000/yr
Unlimited PTO

  • Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of core platform infrastructure and shared services.
  • Lead mission-critical projects to build and scale foundational platform capabilities.
  • Work closely with engineers across the organization to adopt shared infrastructure and evolve existing and new products.

Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter adversaries. They are a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists, experiencing rapid growth and mission impact.

US Canada

  • Maintain tooling, libraries, and infrastructure leveraged by core service teams
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure services that enable engineers to manage, deploy, and scale systems
  • Act as a technical leader, guiding core service teams to design robust and reliable software

StackAdapt is a technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are an AI-powered platform connecting brand and performance marketing, recognized for their diverse workplace and high-performing campaigns.

US

  • Serving as a hands-on engineering leader and trusted technical expert
  • Managing, mentoring and coaching a small team of talented engineers
  • Collaborating closely with Product Management to define, refine, and maintain your team’s roadmap

Kin is redesigning insurance to be smarter, faster, and centered on the customer. They use intelligent pricing, offer seamless bundling, and make every step (from purchasing, servicing to claims) simple and friction-free. Our approach has fostered amazing growth, attracted marquee investors, and earned us accolades.

Global

  • Spearhead development of a user-centric initiative, collaborating with product, engineering, and data teams to revolutionize our products.
  • Collaborate on designing reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems to support millions of users worldwide.
  • Leverage AWS services (e.g. Lambda, API Gateway, S3) to build modern, serverless solutions.

Welltech is a global company with Ukrainian roots with the mission to move everybody to start and stay well for life. With five hubs across Cyprus, Ukraine, Poland, Spain and the UK and a diverse, remote-friendly team of 700+ professionals, they continue to scale rapidly.

Global

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of data platform engineers—supporting technical growth, career progression, and performance.
  • Define and execute the platform strategy and roadmap aligned with company priorities and partner needs.
  • Ensure the design and operation of high-performance pipelines and data services (batch and streaming) for large-scale workloads.

Pismo, founded in 2016 and acquired by Visa in 2024, provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing, and financial market infrastructure, helping customers innovate and build next-generation solutions. With 500+ employees across 10+ countries, Pismo's cloud-based platform empowers firms to launch financial products rapidly while maintaining high security and availability.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, and Finance to align priorities and deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
  • Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in trust, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure systems are designed and operated for reliability, scalability, and resilience; lead incident readiness and post-incident learning.

Traackr is a global SaaS technology company providing a data-driven influencer marketing platform. They help marketers optimize investments, streamline campaigns, and scale programs; their customers range from large companies to indie brands. They are a remote-first company, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Paris, and London and operate on a culture of mutual respect.

Global

  • Lead and define architecture for backend systems ensuring scalability.
  • Guide the development of marketing technologies and predictive systems.
  • Mentor software and data engineers to foster their growth.

Jobgether uses an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Their system identifies top-fitting candidates and shares this shortlist directly with the hiring company.

Global

  • Build and lead a focused team for high ownership and fast decision-making.
  • Own Onebrief’s data model, schema, and evolution strategy.
  • Lead large-scale architectural change, setting standards for data.

Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. They operate as an all-remote company with a team spanning veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies.

$160,800–$193,000/yr
US

  • Lead a team focused on implementing and maintaining AWS-based data management and execution solutions.
  • Be responsible for people management, work execution, and representing your team throughout the organization.
  • Influence the technical roadmap that enables data-driven analytics and machine learning across the enterprise.

Torc is a leader in autonomous driving since 2007 and has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and ship backend services that support user-facing features across mobile and web experiences
  • Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, designers, and data partners
  • Lead backend technical planning and contribute to architecture decisions that improve scalability, reliability, and performance

OnePay is a consumer fintech company trusted by millions of Americans to make money better by offering banking, savings, credit cards, lending, investing, and crypto services. They're backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital, which gives them scale and distribution.

Canada

  • Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
  • Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
  • Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm is a remote-first company!

$75,193–$100,282/yr
Europe

  • Be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python or Kotlin, operating within Affirm’s microservice and event-driven architecture.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve system reliability, team efficiency, or architecture and lead efforts to address them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. They are a remote-first company with an emphasis on valuing their employees.

$110,110–$142,710/yr
Europe

  • You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, polcities, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
  • You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. They are a remote-first company, with employees working from various locations within their country of employment and offer competitive benefits anchored to their core value of putting people first.

$140,000–$160,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the design, development, and optimization of critical systems.
  • Take ownership of complex architectural decisions for reliability and scalability.
  • Mentor the team, shape architecture, and drive the technical direction.

Kasa is the leading tech-enabled hotel and apartment hotel brand and manager. Kasa has built a hospitality operating system that fundamentally improves the profitability of hospitality assets while delivering a high quality, digitally forward experience to guests.

$155,400–$155,400/yr
Europe 5w PTO

  • Shape the technical direction of customer acquisition and success platforms.
  • Lead cross-functional engineering efforts spanning multiple teams and systems.
  • Design, code, and review critical components across backend, APIs, and frontend.

Tem is revolutionizing the energy market by providing a direct and decentralized platform for businesses to buy renewable energy. They have saved UK businesses and generators over £25 million since launching in 2021 and are backed by top-tier VCs like Atomico and Albion.

Global

  • Design and oversee the end-to-end architecture of global AWS environments using a Standardize-First approach.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers. Conduct code reviews, performance evaluations, and technical coaching.
  • Lead large-scale infrastructure migrations and deployments using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Object Edge is an award-winning eCommerce consultancy that delivers end-to-end design and development solutions centered around our client’s goals and customer needs. Our teams unite curious, intellectual advisors across the globe who creatively solve business problems and produce measurable results.

Mexico

  • Build new features for the REST API & enhance the AWS infrastructure on top of a modern tech stack using C# and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Work with product management, designers, and QA team to implement new features and enhancements.
  • Participate as a reviewer in our pull request review process, ensuring high code quality and providing valuable insights to your fellow team members.

Varicent transforms the Sales Performance Management (SPM) market, redefining how organizations achieve revenue success. Our cutting-edge SaaS solutions empower revenue leaders globally to design smarter go-to-market strategies and maximize seller performance.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale data mining solutions that handle real-time data as well as batch mode ingestion, modeling, and inference
  • Shape long-term architectural direction, technology stack, and engineering best practices
  • Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability across the platform

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. They have over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives; they bring together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise.