Staff Backend Engineer for Cube, enhancing financial planning with scalable backend systems. Collaborate across teams to elevate system design and reliability for ambitious growth.
Responsibilities
Serve as a technical North Star for our engineering organization.
Shape the architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits that allow our entire team to scale.
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to transform ambiguous business needs into robust distributed systems.
Take ownership of complex initiatives end-to-end, influencing infrastructure, deployment strategies, observability practices, and long-term system health.
Help build scalable engineering foundations, reusable abstractions, and internal frameworks that accelerate the entire team.
Requirements
Typically brings 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates who demonstrate strong Staff-level impact, ownership, and technical leadership.
You have clear, experience-backed opinions on distributed systems and long-term architecture. You don’t just solve today’s problem; you design systems that support years of growth.
Deep knowledge of Django internals including middleware, database routing, management commands, signals, and performance optimization in high-scale, multi-tenant environments.
Strong experience building and evolving distributed systems across cloud infrastructure. Comfortable debugging complex concurrency challenges such as race conditions, distributed deadlocks, async failures, and large-scale database performance issues.
Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy to power data-intensive workflows and financial modeling pipelines.
Proven ability to define engineering standards, design reusable abstractions, and improve developer velocity through internal tooling and frameworks.
Early adopter of AI-assisted engineering workflows to increase velocity without sacrificing reliability or code quality.
Able to clearly explain architectural trade-offs to executives, product partners, and engineers at all levels.
Familiarity with FP&A domain concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflows.
Benefits
We provide 100% covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including FSA/HSA options plus free memberships to OneMedical, Teladoc, and Talkspace.
Our flexible paid vacation and sick/mental health time guidelines help you get the time and space you need.
We offer stock options to all full-time employees of Cube, as we want you to be connected to the success of the company.
We offer 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for the birthing parent.
We offer each Cuber a quarterly learning budget to spend on books, classes, or events that support your development.
You’ll be joining an experienced team of tech startup leaders who are eager to work with you and provide support and mentorship!
You’ll work for a company that our customers are truly excited about!
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