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Niural is an AI-native platform unifying payroll, compliance, HR, and financial operations across 150+ countries. The company is backed by Marathon, M13, and Inspired Capital.
As a Software Engineer II - Backend, you will design and own backend services end-to-end in a serverless architecture. You'll make informed decisions across DynamoDB and Postgres, optimize performance and cost, implement event-driven systems, and lead small backend initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and own end-to-end backend features in serverless environments
- Architect scalable and maintainable REST APIs
- Design and optimize data models in DynamoDB based on access patterns
- Design relational schemas and optimize queries in Postgres
- Make informed decisions between NoSQL and relational approaches
- Implement event-driven components where appropriate
- Own production deployments, monitoring, and rollback strategies
- Optimize performance and AWS costs at the service level
- Lead small backend initiatives or feature pods
- Participate in incident response and conduct root cause analysis
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical reviews
- Proactively identify technical debt and drive improvements
- Collaborate closely with Product and Frontend teams to shape technical solutions
Required qualifications:
- 3+ years of backend development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience designing scalable APIs in distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Postgres
- Experience with event-driven architecture patterns
- Solid understanding of system scalability, reliability, and cost optimization
- Experience owning services in production environments
- Ability to lead small teams or projects
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Product mindset balancing engineering quality and delivery speed
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
The role offers competitive salary, continuous learning programs, mentorship opportunities, collaborative work environment, equipment (MacBook Pro, high-performance monitor), and visa sponsorship options for high performers.
