Sr. Backend Engineer (Remote)
Mode Mobile
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Who We Are ( Mode.Inc ) Mode is a fast-growing technology company building businesses at the intersection of AI, data, mobile apps, and digital experiences. Our portfolio of mobile apps and digital products reaches 100M+ monthly active users across a global audience. We continue to accelerate growth through product innovation, strategic acquisitions, and emerging business opportunities. Mode was recognized by Deloitte as the #1 fastest-growing software company in North America on the 2023 Technology Fast 500. Today, we are building our next phase of growth, including expanding Mode's AI and data business and developing direct relationships with companies that can benefit from the data and capabilities we have built. Our Team and Culture Drive Our Success Our team is the heart of our culture. We value innovation, collaboration, and curiosity, with a passion for getting things done. We strive to hire and cultivate the best team members and foster a culture of open communication and transparency. We are driven and hard-working but also committed to having fun along the way. We allow OKRs to guide us, assume positive intent, sometimes agree to disagree and commit, honor our commitments, seek to accomplish more with less, and encourage everyone to speak up as our team owns our company’s success. You can read more about our team and how we work here. The Role We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of production backend systems and help integrate and evolve new products within Mode. This is a hands-on role for someone who is comfortable entering unfamiliar codebases, quickly understanding complex systems, identifying risks, and turning them into reliable, maintainable production systems. You will collaborate closely with product, design, data, and frontend engineering to deliver features through rapid development cycles and deployment. We are an AI-native company, and you’ll be expected to use modern AI coding and agentic tools as a force multiplier in your everyday engineering work. What You’ll Do Build & Scale Core Services Architect backend systems powering user workflows, notifications, and automation features Design APIs and microservices built for performance, efficiency, and scale Quickly learn and apply new technologies as needed Work with high-volume data systems and event-driven architectures Improve observability, monitoring, logging, testing, and alerting Identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimization strategies Build distributed systems with multiple services, queues, external APIs, and asynchronous data flows Ensure uptime, stability, and production resilience Build resilient integrations with third-party services Work in 2-week sprints with CI/CD and strong code quality practices Partner with product, data, and frontend to ship features Participate in system design and architecture reviews What You Bring Required 6+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in consumer apps, mobile, or SaaS, with at least 2 years in a senior-level role Experience taking ownership of an existing production system or codebase Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar architecture, code, dependencies, and operational workflows Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in systems you did not originally design Comfortable working with incomplete documentation and ambiguity Ability to identify technical risks and prioritize what needs to be fixed versus what can be left alone Work across teams and systems to integrate backend services, data, APIs, and operational workflows Understand dependencies between products and identify opportunities to simplify or standardize where it makes sense Help evolve inherited systems while maintaining product velocity and customer reliability Strong production ownership mindset Take ownership of existing backend services and become a reliable technical owner Investigate production issues across application, infrastructure, data, and third-party…
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