Hybrid Staff Software Engineer – Backend

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer at The Economist Group leading backend development for Gen AI services. Designing scalable and secure cloud systems in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development and operation of backend services that support our Gen AI and personalization platform.
  • Drive architectural decisions and set engineering standards for reliability, performance and security.
  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, using modern DevOps and IaC practices.
  • Develop and optimize APIs, integration patterns and shared services for use across engineering teams.
  • Apply Retrieval-Augmented Generation and other Gen AI techniques to real product use cases.
  • Own services in production, ensuring strong observability, alerting, performance and FinOps monitoring.
  • Partner with InfoSec, Support and Enablement teams to deliver secure, well-documented and supportable systems.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to cross-team technical initiatives.
  • Occasionally contribute to frontend work using React or Next.js.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Java or TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Deep experience with AWS, including designing and operating cloud-native applications.
  • Expertise in API design, API gateways and distributed backend systems.
  • Hands-on experience with RAG and integrating Gen AI models into production systems.
  • Strong DevOps skills, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization and serverless architecture.
  • Solid understanding of web infrastructure, including load balancers, WAFs and CDNs.
  • Experience with IaC tools such as CDK or Terraform.
  • Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks, ideally React or Next.js.
  • Proven track record in technical leadership, mentoring and cross-team collaboration.
  • Clear communication skills and a strong sense of ownership.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Work From Anywhere program for up to 25 days
  • Generous annual and parental leave
  • Volunteering days

Job title

Staff Software Engineer – Backend

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridIndonesia

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