Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Distributed Systems)

JOB OVERVIEW

Plan A Technologies is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer. In this role, you will contribute to key technology decisions. You bring expert-level industry skills in large-scale platform systems. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient solutions while fostering collaboration and technical excellence.

Please note: you must have at least 5+ years of experience as Backend Engineer to be considered for this role.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal developer platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience.

• Develop, scale, and maintain our platform's core features—including CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability—to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment.

• Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem.

• Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them.

• Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs.

EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems.

• Proficiency with Java and Python. Golang and TypeScript familiarity is a bonus, but not required.

• Experience building and operating large-scale services on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and Kubernetes architecture.

• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and lead complex projects.

• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and excellent communication for cross-functional teamwork.

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

• Initiative and drive to do great things.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with modern, large-scale platform components and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, internal developer portals, service meshes).

ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS
Plan A Technologies is a global engineering firm created to solve the toughest tech challenges facing today’s businesses. Founded by software entrepreneurs Aron Ezra and Slav Kulik, Plan A helps organizations analyze their tech ecosystem to identify exactly what needs to be improved across their products and infrastructure—and then builds the solutions to fix it.
Rather than offering theoretical ideas or software that never launches, Plan A combines elite engineering talent with custom-built, proprietary AI agents to deliver fast, secure, production-ready solutions. Its capabilities span proprietary AI agent deployment, custom software development, application modernization, data platforms, cloud migrations, systems integration, and practical technical advice.
With more than 500 successful product deployments completed worldwide, Plan A helps organizations of every size—from ambitious startups to global enterprises—modernize their systems, automate complex operations, and stay ahead of the technology curve.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come into one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: Vacation, Brand New Laptop, and More: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule and other goodies.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!