Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

Qualifications

• 6+ years in backend engineering
• Experience building and operating distributed systems in production
• Proficiency with strong typing and concurrency in Go (or similar)
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL schema design, indexing strategies, and performance tuning
• Experience implementing idempotent systems, dead-letter queues, and backpressure management
• Experience with Delta syncs, including watermark tracking and safe recovery from mid-sync failures
• Experience deploying and managing services in AWS or similar environments
• Experience with Enterprise Integration, building custom integration frameworks, or working with complex ERP/HR APIs (SAP, Workday, etc.)
• Understanding of Systems Architecture, including when to utilize polling versus event-driven patterns (CDC/Kafka)
• Experience structuring data to be consumed by downstream AI/LLM services

Requirements

• Required technical skills as outlined above
• Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is valued at Archer

Skills

• Framework Engineering: Building reusable plumbing for connectors, including authentication, circuit breaking, retries, and idempotency
• Canonical Mapping: Designing logic to map inconsistent enterprise data into strongly-typed entities, handling multi-source enrichment, unit normalization, and field-level provenance
• Reliability: Implementing synchronization strategies with watermark management to ensure the system recovers gracefully from failures without data loss or duplication
• Replayability: Building infrastructure to store raw API responses allowing the system to re-process data from local storage when mapping logic evolves, without re-querying source APIs
• Performance: Optimizing for high-volume synchronization, focusing on PostgreSQL performance, concurrent fetching, and batch upserts
• Observability: Defining and monitoring metrics for throughput, data drift, and error rates to identify issues before they impact downstream applications
• Collaboration: Collaborating with platform architect on schema evolution, entity contracts, and the boundary between what connectors own and what the platform layer handles

Benefits

• Base pay range: $126,700 - $150,000
• Company committed to diversity and inclusivity
• Equal opportunity employer
• Commitment to attracting, retaining, and motivating talent
• Pay-for-performance culture
• Reasonable accommodations for job applicants with disabilities
• Work visa sponsorship not available at the moment

Pay

Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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