Back End Developer

Backend Engineer

We're hiring builders—of systems, scale, and legacy.

distributed systems

Shyft

What You'll Do

• Design and develop robust backend services using

  TypeScript

  ,

  Go

  , and optionally

  Rust.

• Deploy and scale Kubernetes clusters

  , manage

  HAProxy/Nginx load balancers

  , and run

  databases and message brokers

  like

  PostgreSQL

  ,

  ClickHouse

  ,

  Kafka

  , and

  RabbitMQ

  —directly on bare metal.

• Build high-performance infrastructure from the ground up—where every CPU cycle, disk write, and network hop matters, because you control the whole stack.

• Own the DevOps lifecycle

  : design and maintain

  CI/CD pipelines

  , manage

  infrastructure deployments

  , implement

  observability

  tooling, and set up

  monitoring, logging, and alerting.

• Tune systems for massive read/write concurrency

  , troubleshoot complex production issues, and write clean, scalable code.
• Own your services end-to-end—from local development all the way through production operations and incident response.

What Excites Us About You

• You’ve worked in

  high-scale production environments

  , ideally on

  bare metal or hybrid cloud

  setups.
• You understand

  concurrency

  ,

  multithreading

  , and how to debug race conditions like a pro.

• You treat DevOps and backend services as a unified craft—not separate responsibilities, but parts of the same engineering mindset.

• You build systems with visibility

  built-in and appreciate the power of good telemetry and on-call sanity.
• You're principled but pragmatic—you chase performance without overengineering.

Bonus Points

• Production or R&D experience building backend systems in

  Rust.

• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling

  Kafka

  ,

  RabbitMQ

  ,

  PostgreSQL

  ,

  ClickHouse

  , or similar systems.
• You maintain a

  technical blog

  , contribute to

  open source

  , or love sharing what you learn with the community.
• You enjoy

  solving open-ended R&D challenges

  and building infrastructure when there’s no plug-and-play solutions.
• Comfortable digging into internals—whether it’s

  Kubernetes

  , a

  kernel tunable

  , or a

  packet drop at the NIC.

We don’t do cookie-cutter engineering.

We're not a plug-and-play cloud shop—we design, we build, we own. If you want to solve real problems with real ownership, and build infrastructure that feels engineered, we’d love to hear from you.