• Partner with Product Management to understand business requirements, define success metrics, and shape end-user experience • Lead and motivate a cross-functional team of engineers to consistently deliver high-quality solutions • Drive architectural decisions in collaboration with other leads, building scalable, maintainable, and reliable web applications • Provide hands-on development and mentorship, fostering a collaborative environment for continuous learning and growth • Enable teams to leverage data effectively to build impactful, customer-facing features • Actively participate in development efforts, contributing to the design and delivery of high-quality solutions • Present prototypes, technical concepts, and working solutions to stakeholders for feedback and alignment • Conduct and promote constructive code reviews to improve code quality and engineering standards • Uphold best practices through rigorous design and code reviews • Influence the technical roadmap by driving innovation, improving development processes, and contributing new ideas • Contribute to hiring efforts to attract and retain top engineering talent • Refine and flesh out user stories to ensure clarity and effective team execution

Role Description We’re looking for an experienced Staff Backend Developer to help us change the way the world works, with anytime, anywhere, any-device productivity. Here, you’ll lead the architectural vision and technical strategy for our core systems, focusing heavily on high-level design, cloud apps architecture, and system boundaries. As a Staff Backend Developer, you will: - Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems to support evolving product needs. - Participate in designing and leading the strategic decomposition of a mature Django application into scalable, asynchronous microservices. - Design scalable, reliable systems that span multiple engineering teams, working closely with DevOps and Product. - Establish, enforce, and iterate on engineering best practices, API design standards, and deployment protocols. - Partner directly with Product leadership and Staff/Principal peers to map high-level business objectives to concrete technical execution and capacity planning. - Elevate the engineering organization by actively mentoring both junior and senior developers, fostering knowledge sharing, and conducting rigorous architecture reviews. - Stay current with backend and cloud technologies, evaluate and adopt new technologies to continuously improve system efficiency. - Document architecture and mentor junior engineers to foster knowledge sharing. Qualifications - Extensive Backend Experience with a proven track record in principal or architect-level roles designing complex, distributed systems. - Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling distributed backend systems and microservices architectures. - Expert-level knowledge of Python internals, memory management, and advanced frameworks (Django, FastAPI). - Deep expertise in SQL/NoSQL databases at scale (schema design, complex query optimization, sharding, replication, caching) and ORM tools (Django, SQLAlchemy). - Mastery of asynchronous processing and message-broker/streaming platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Celery). - Expert-level experience with observability, distributed tracing, and APM tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to diagnose systemic bottlenecks. - Production expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for CI/CD pipelines. - Solid foundation in designing RESTful APIs, authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML). - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments. Requirements - Experience with Azure as a cloud platform. - Experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs. - Experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools. - Polyglot background (e.g., experience with Golang, Rust, or C++ for performance-critical domains). Benefits - Flexible working environment. - Empowerment to work when, how, and where you want. Company Description Parallels is a top VDI/EUC product helping businesses since 1999. Whether it’s desktop or cloud, on-prem or hybrid, Parallels has a solution to help your company optimize the speed and security of your work environment at an affordable price.

• Develop backend solutions in Java, focusing on modernizing the SAP commission system. • Design and implement RESTful APIs, ensuring robust integration between systems. • Define and apply architectural patterns and best practices in Spring. • Conduct technical code reviews, contributing to the maintenance of system quality. • Support the integration of DevOps processes, including deployment automation and application monitoring. • Perform database optimizations and tuning to improve performance and availability.

Role Description As a member of the GRaF (Grading and Feedback) team, the purpose of this role is to build and maintain services related to grading and feedback functionality. The Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems using AWS Lambda and related technologies. This role is critical in developing and optimizing our serverless architecture. Cross functionally this role will interface mainly with QA, Product, UX and Support. - Drive the long-term technical strategy and multi-year architectural roadmap for the GRaF backend platform, defining and enforcing technical standards and best practices across the team. - Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, robust, and cost-efficient backend services using AWS Lambda, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures. - Act as a technical leader, providing expert technical guidance and mentorship to engineers on system design, Java best practices, code quality, and troubleshooting complex issues in production environments. - Proactively partner with engineering, product, and architectural leadership across multiple teams to identify and resolve systemic technical debt and architectural risks. - Oversee and ensure the continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) and the maintenance of comprehensive automated testing frameworks. Qualifications - 10+ years of professional experience in backend development. - Expert-level proficiency in Java or another programming language suitable for AWS Lambda, with deep experience in distributed, high-scale, and high availability systems. - Extensive experience with complex AWS serverless services (especially Lambdas & DynamoDB) and a proven track record of driving large-scale architectural decisions. - Demonstrated ability to act independently, set technical direction, and influence cross-functional teams and senior engineers without direct authority. - Proven experience mentoring other engineers, leading technical design reviews, and establishing engineering processes and quality standards. - Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills to resolve significant, unique, and ambiguous technical challenges. Requirements - The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $130,350/year to $217,250/year. - This position is bonus eligible / commission-based. - Actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. - Internal equity, market and organizational factors are also considered. Benefits - Remote First Culture - Health Care Coverage - Education Reimbursement - Competitive Paid Time Off - Self-Care Days - National Holidays - 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed - Paid Volunteer Time Off - Charitable Contribution Match - Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement - Access to Employee Assistance Program (mental health platform) - Parental Leave - Retirement Plan with match/contribution