Leverage data to win customers and increase margin
Senior Backend Engineer, 7+ years
Location
United States
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$80 - $120 / hour
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, 7+ years
Rivora
• Build systems that turn messy, high-volume data into reliable outputs • Design APIs, own data workflows, and push performance at scale • Ship fast, debug hard problems, and care about correctness • Mentor engineers and raise the bar on code quality • Own major parts of the backend, improving performance and reliability
Job Requirements
- 7+ years building and owning backend systems in production
- Real fluency in Ruby/Rails or Go, ideally both
- Experience working with data at scale
- Strong instincts for correctness and traceability
- Someone who ships
- Low ego, high ownership
- Nice to have: Background in logistics, supply chain, or freight/parcel economics
Benefits
- Direct collaboration with a CTO who has deep domain expertise and genuinely wants to share ownership of the technical direction
- Hard, real problems, not CRUD work
- High trust, high impact
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