# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: Fal
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $250,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fal/jobs/4009193009
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0ad8413d-ec3

## Description

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on complex distributed systems and have deep experience with backend APIs, relational databases, and event-driven architectures.

You will build high-performance, reliable solutions across cloud-native platforms and global infrastructure.

### Responsibilities

- Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Fal's commerce platform

- Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs

- Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems

- Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure

- Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance

### Requirements

- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices

- Expert-level programmer in one or more of Python, Go, Or Rust

- Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

- Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

- Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines

- Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems a plus

- Experience with Kubernetes, or containers a plus

- Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus

### What we offer at Fal

- Interesting and challenging work

- Competitive salary and equity

- A lot of learning and growth opportunities

- We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco

- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

- Regular team events and offsite

### Compensation

$180,000 - $250,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Version control practices
- CI/CD pipelines
- Payment processors
- Billing systems
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- Data infrastructure