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Backend System Architect

Coframe· Engineering
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SF Bay Area$180k - $300kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Backend System Architect role at Coframe focusing on designing, building, and operating reliable backend services, APIs, and data-intensive workflows. Early-stage, high-ownership position with significant influence over architecture and engineering practices in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable backend services, APIs
  • Own technical projects from initial architecture through production deployment and ongoing operation
  • Build systems that process high volumes of events, experiments, and customer data
  • Improve the interoperability, reliability, performance, observability, and scalability of our platform
  • Make thoughtful architectural decisions while balancing speed, simplicity, and long-term maintainability
  • Work closely with product and customer-facing teams to translate real-world needs into reusable platform capabilities
  • Help establish engineering standards and shape the technical foundation of the company

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and limited structure
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing distributed or data-intensive systems
  • Proficiency in Python or another modern backend language
  • Experience building APIs, services, databases, and asynchronous workflows
  • A track record of owning meaningful technical projects from conception through production
  • Strong judgment around system design, reliability, and technical tradeoffs
  • Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems
  • A builder mindset—you move quickly, care deeply about quality, and are energized by creating something from the ground up
  • Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup
  • Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and Postgres
  • Familiarity with evaluation systems, observability, orchestration, or distributed task execution
  • Experience working on systems where correctness, latency, and reliability directly affect the customer experience

Skills

Required:Backend system design and architecturePython or modern backend languageAPIs, services, databases, asynchronous workflows

Benefits

  • Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • 401k Plan with Coframe match
  • Meals covered in-office
  • Gym membership
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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