Senior Backend Engineer

About the Company

Atticus is a certified B Corporation on a mission to tear down barriers between people in crisis and the aid they deserve. We connect people with disabilities to government benefits and help victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence access compensation. Having helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10 billion in aid, we are building the technology to modernize the legal assistance industry.

Responsibilities

• Own significant backend systems end-to-end, setting high bars for architecture, design, implementation, and production health
• Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements and bring 0-to-1 product thinking to the team
• Mentor engineers on the team with an emphasis on backend patterns
• Work across the stack as needed, from frontend UI to data systems
• Make hard architectural decisions while maintaining deep user empathy

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production software
• Experience at a seed-stage startup or as an early member of a new product team
• Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers
• Experience working on high-performing product teams alongside PMs and designers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Docker
• Background in legal, healthcare, or financial services industries
• Experience building products for consumers or two-sided marketplaces
• Experience evolving systems as teams and traffic scale