Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Foundations

At Similarweb, we are revolutionizing the way businesses interact with the digital world by revealing to them everything that happens online. You’ll be part of the group responsible for Similarweb’s main products. You will impact the work of developers in the group by designing, building and maintaining the core infrastructure of our solution and leading the research and development of new technologies as well as maintaining code standards and practices.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable backend services and libraries that are reusable and maintainable, serving as the foundation for various applications across the company; Build and maintain tools that streamline development workflows, enabling product teams to focus on delivering business value; Define and promote best practices for code quality, performance, and reliability, ensuring healthy production environments and rapid development cycles; Lead the adoption and integration of AI tools to assist in code generation, testing, documentation, and debugging, thereby accelerating development processes; Perform proof-of-concepts (POCs) on emerging technologies, including AI agents and platforms, to assess their applicability and benefits to our development ecosystem; Drive cross-team technical projects aimed at improving infrastructure scalability, reliability, and developer experience; Analyze and resolve complex production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance; Contribute to the evolution of our system architecture, ensuring it supports rapid development and scaling needs

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; 5+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on infrastructure and platform engineering; Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Python, Java, or Go; Experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or large-scale web applications; Experience improving stability of large-scale systems using monitoring, solving bottle-necks and making appropriate changes; High coding standards, working independently and experience leading long term tech tasks involving many teams and stakeholders; Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes; Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible); Demonstrated experience in integrating and leveraging AI tools to enhance development workflows

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages; Regular team outings and happy hours; Career Week; Personalized coaching; Ongoing learning solutions