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$213,000–$273,000/yr
US

  • Own the end-to-end technical vision for the RBVM and its supporting services.
  • Partner with cross functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous product and business goals into concrete technical strategy.
  • Contribute production code, setting the standard for design quality, code quality, and operational rigor.

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$215,000–$270,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Improving architecture across backend services and platform infrastructure, and defining long-term architectural strategy and technical standards across teams.
  • Establish engineering standards that improve consistency, maintainability, reliability, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor Senior and Staff engineers through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and project guidance.

Truffle Security is a cybersecurity company on a mission to make secrets easier to detect, verify, and remediate across modern software environments. The company's enterprise solution gives security and engineering teams everything they need to find exposed credentials. They are trusted by organizations including NVIDIA, Chick-fil-A, and OpenAI.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Help guide technical direction and contribute to platform architectural strategy.
  • Champion engineering principles and hold the bar on code quality.
  • Elevate engineers around you through pairing and knowledge sharing.

Arctic Wolf is a cybersecurity company that helps organizations end cyber risk. They have a global presence with over 10,000 customers and more than 2,000 channel partners, and it is known for its award-winning Aurora Platform.

Europe

  • Design, build, and own backend systems that transform raw enterprise data into structured representations.
  • Develop and maintain scalable data processing pipelines, semantic storage layers, and versioning systems.
  • Own features end-to-end, from data modeling and backend logic to API design and integration layers.

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing, AI-first enterprise software company building a next-generation semantic intelligence layer for large-scale business data. They value transparency, ownership, and long-term impact.

Canada

  • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale and tie it to business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate across product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review standards and developing team talent.

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 that provides competitive benefits anchored to their core value of people coming first.

Europe

  • Design, develop, deploy and maintain new and existing applications.
  • Co-own our services architecture, resilience, scalability and robustness.
  • Grow on technical leadership & mentorship of other engineers.

Qonto provides a finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools, creating freedom for SMEs to succeed. Founded in 2017, Qonto has over 1,600 employees and serves over 600,000 customers across 8 European countries with a customer satisfaction-focused culture.

Europe LATAM

  • Design and develop scalable AI-powered backend systems for SysML-based engineering environments
  • Build and maintain distributed data ingestion and ETL pipelines for large-scale engineering artifacts and technical documentation
  • Develop and optimize LLM-powered workflows for metadata extraction, semantic analysis, and entity resolution

Sigma Software builds scalable AI-driven systems. They are an innovative team leveraging AI, semantic graphs, and distributed processing to deliver impactful solutions.

$193,600–$253,000/yr
US

  • Lead architecture, system design and engineering efforts for high-scale, data-intensive B2B systems.
  • Design and implement batch and real-time processing architectures that are reliable, observable, and performant.
  • Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, and actively contribute to Omada’s engineering community.

Omada Health is a digital care provider that empowers people to achieve their health goals through sustainable behavioral change. They have served more than two million members and strive to build an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Drive architecture and technical strategy for core platform systems, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Hire, manage, and develop a high-performing engineering team
  • Partner with Product and Data teams to define scope, timelines, and tradeoffs

VulnCheck is transforming exploit intelligence by helping security teams act faster. They deliver exploit intelligence, asset correlation, and contextual insights. Founded in 2021 in Lexington, Massachusetts, they have a transparent, collaborative, and supportive culture.

US

  • Architect, design, and develop robust backend systems, APIs, and distributed services using modern programming languages.
  • Lead the implementation of scalable and secure RESTful APIs to support front-end and third-party integration.
  • Define and enforce architectural best practices across the full development stack, including code quality, testing, security, and observability.

Herbalife is a global nutrition company that has been changing people's lives with great products since 1980. They offer a variety of benefits to eligible employees in the U.S. and foster a collaborative, high-performing environment.

$220,000–$230,000/yr
US

  • Drive technical direction across multiple teams and systems, ensuring decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long-term platform goals.
  • Translate ambiguous business needs, emerging opportunities, and complex technical challenges into actionable technical strategies and execution plans.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor across teams, helping stakeholders align around technical approaches, priorities, and tradeoffs.

College Board helps over 7 million students a year navigate from high school to college and career. As a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence in education, College Board has pioneered programs like the SAT® and AP® to expand opportunities for students.

$200,000–$230,000/yr
US UK

  • Define and enforce a coherent architectural strategy aligned with product vision and long-term platform evolution.
  • Architect resilient, secure-by-design, auditable systems capable of operating at petabyte-scale enterprise data volumes across global deployments.
  • Prototype and validate architectural approaches.

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. They are a growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries. Smarsh values diversity, and they believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to their success.

Europe 5w PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power Chattermill’s core analytics platform.
  • Architect reliable, maintainable distributed systems and contribute to the evolution of backend service design and infrastructure.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of backend engineering workstreams, from technical scoping and architecture through to implementation, testing, observability, and production support.

Chattermill helps large successful brands like Uber, Amazon, and Wise put their customers at the centre of everything they do. Using best-in-class tech in a fast-evolving AI space, their Customer Experience Intelligence platform continuously analyses feedback to help clients identify what to do next.

US

  • Design the systems that power every financial report and statement, from monthly reports to daily statements to custom client requests.
  • Build automated frameworks that guarantee accuracy and consistency for every number sent to clients.
  • Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer.

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions.

US Canada

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core business workflows
  • Own projects end-to-end, from early design through production and iteration
  • Design APIs and data models that are clear, stable, and easy to work with

Short Story is an award-winning, technology-powered retailer dedicated to petite women 5'4" and under. As a fast-growing startup, they're revolutionizing retail with a data-driven learning system that leverages customer feedback to create tailored products.

$135,000–$170,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Python and cloud-native architectures.
  • Develop modern full-stack applications and internal platforms using React/Next.js and related frontend technologies.
  • Lead complex technical initiatives from architecture and design through implementation and deployment.

Impiricus is the first and only AI-powered HCP Engagement Engine that ethically connects HCPs to pharma resources, reduce go-to-market costs and accelerate patient access to the treatments they need. Deloitte named Impiricus the #1 fastest growing company in North America in 2025.

$200,000–$240,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead and grow a team of backend/platform engineers building the systems that power Intercept and other critical applications.
  • Drive execution across planning, prioritization, and delivery with a focus on reliability and scalability.
  • Own the technical direction of backend services and APIs, ensuring systems are secure, performant, and maintainable.

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. They're building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.

$135,960–$203,940/yr
US

  • Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services.
  • Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications.
  • Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline.

Commerce empowers businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, they connect the tools and systems that power growth. They are a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce.

$105,000–$135,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that support core product features.

Impiricus is an AI-powered HCP Engagement Engine created to transform how life sciences companies support physicians. They ethically connect HCPs to pharma resources, reduce go-to-market costs and accelerate patient access to the treatments they need. The company has over 200 employees.

5w PTO

  • Drive major technical initiatives from design through production, improving scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems.
  • Design and evolve backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data models that support complex business processes at scale.
  • Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction.

Tem is rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. They aim to put power back in the hands of customers and tackle the critical problem of access to low-cost electricity, leveraging AI-driven infrastructure for efficient and sustainable energy markets.

US Canada 6w PTO

  • Earning the trust of our large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's "big tent" philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives.
  • Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale.
  • Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe. They help more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything they do.