Backend Engineer
Job details
- Pay
- $220,000 – $300,000 a year
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid level
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Posted
- Oct 8, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 9, 2026
About this role
About the job
MeeBoss is sharing this active opportunity on behalf of the hiring company. The role involves taking substantial ownership of production systems that process complex data at scale. The position is based in Brooklyn, New York, with a requirement for five days per week in the office.
Job title
Backend Engineer - Data Processing
Company
MeeBoss
Location
Brooklyn, NY On-site
Compensation
$220,000 to $300,000 base salary
Why this role
This opportunity allows you to design, build, and operate backend services that transform large datasets through multiple processing stages. You will own systems from architecture and implementation through monitoring, debugging, and recovery.
What you will do
- Design, build, and operate backend services that transform large datasets through multiple processing stages.
- Own systems from architecture and implementation through monitoring, debugging, and recovery.
- Build reliable asynchronous workflows using queues, workers, and batch processing.
- Develop safeguards against duplicate results, incomplete processing, and data-quality errors.
- Create internal tools that help engineers understand system behavior and investigate issues.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines to ship secure, maintainable software.
What we are looking for
- 3 to 10 years of software engineering experience, including personal ownership of production backend systems.
- Meaningful full-time experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup, with responsibility for decisions and delivery in an evolving environment.
- A relevant undergraduate STEM degree from a top-30 U.S. institution.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including concurrency, idempotency, retries, partial failures, and safe recovery.
- Proficiency in a general-purpose backend language, such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java.
- Ability to work onsite in Brooklyn five days each week.
Benefits
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Relocation support up to $10,000.
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