Senior Backend Engineer: Scale High-Throughput APIs
Summary
Builds and scales high-throughput APIs in an event-driven AWS environment using Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with Rust for performance-critical components.
Burns Sheehan is partnered with a fast-growing technology platform scaling multiple engineering teams. This backend role is the technical anchor on the server side, owning APIs powering the customer–facing product and shaping how the domain evolves.
You’ll work in a high-throughput, event‑driven environment on AWS with Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis, exploring Rust for performance, and delivering end-to-end impact from problem statement through to release.