Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Role Responsibilities:

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Anon, you'll architect and scale the enterprise data migration platform that enables companies to seamlessly transfer customer data between systems. You'll build robust infrastructure for secure authentication, automated data extraction, and intelligent transformation workflows, creating reliable solutions that work across platforms with or without APIs. This role requires deep technical expertise as you design the systems powering frictionless enterprise migrations and customer onboarding.

Builder Mindset & Ownership:

• Take pride in building reliable, secure APIs that developers love to use

• Own features end-to-end, from conception through deployment and maintenance

• ctively identify and solve problems before they impact customers

Core Platform Development:

• Design and maintain scalable, secure APIs that power our suite of platform-specific SDKs

• Implement networking features including traffic inspection, protocol-level request manipulation, and proxy systems

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines and infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or similar

• Contribute to authentication protocol implementation and security infrastructure

• Develop and maintain vendor integrations across authentication, database, and DevOps tools

Enterprise-First Mentality:

• Manage API versioning and backwards compatibility

• Support customer integration efforts and address technical challenges

• Collaborate with product and frontend teams to improve customer experience

MUST HAVES:

• Should be Senior, Staff, or Tech Lead level

• CS degree from a top university

• 5 - 8 years of experience building backend systems for highly complex platforms and SDKs

• Expert proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js for backend systems and knowledge of security best practices

• Experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or similar

• Strong experience with REST API design

• CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Individually owned features end-to-end from conception through deployment and maintenance

• Experience working at an early-stage startup

• Previously architected and scaled enterprise level platforms at Tier 1 companies like Palantir and Databricks or competitive Series A-C startups

Plusses:

• Ex-founder/CTO or early technical lead at high-growth early-stage tech startup

• Previous experience at AI/Agent related startups

• GraphQL experience

• Networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, TLS) experience

Soft skills:

• ble to take charge individually, scope out projects, and lead initiatives