Senior Backend Engineer

## About Feathery

Feathery automates data intake workflows for insurance and wealth management firms. Industry leaders rely on Feathery to power mission-critical workflows like underwriting, client onboarding, and automated account openings.

With rapid revenue growth and expanding enterprise demand, we’re scaling our engineering team to support increasingly complex, data-intensive workflows across our platform.

## Why We’re Hiring

As Feathery grows, so does the complexity and scale of the systems that power our product — from document processing pipelines to real-time workflow execution.

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale the core infrastructure behind our document intelligence and workflow platform. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys designing reliable, high-performance systems and taking ownership of backend architecture in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.

You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver systems that are fast, resilient, and deeply aligned with customer needs.

## About the Role

This is a high-ownership role that blends:

• Backend system design and distributed architecture
• Infrastructure, scalability, and performance optimization
• Product-focused engineering and problem solving
• Cross-functional collaboration across product and customer teams

You’ll play a key role in shaping the systems that power Feathery’s platform — ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and built to handle complex, real-world use cases.

## What You’ll Do

### Backend Systems & Infrastructure

• Design, build, and scale backend services that power document processing and workflow automation
• Develop asynchronous pipelines and distributed systems for handling large volumes of data
• Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS services and queueing systems (e.g., SQS)
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and observability across systems
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

### Data Processing & Platform Capabilities

• Build systems for processing and transforming structured and unstructured data
• Integrate external services such as OCR and AI models where appropriate
• Improve reliability and throughput of document and data processing pipelines
• Contribute to APIs and internal services that power the product

### Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with product to define requirements and ship impactful features
• Collaborate with frontend and customer-facing teams to support new use cases
• Help translate complex customer needs into scalable backend solutions
• Contribute to product planning and technical scoping

### Technical Leadership

• Take ownership of key backend systems and architecture decisions
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
• Help improve code quality, testing, and deployment processes
• Stay up to date with modern backend and infrastructure technologies

## About You

• 4–7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems
• Strong proficiency in backend frameworks such as Node.js, Django, or similar
• Experience designing distributed systems and asynchronous processing pipelines
• Solid experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and observability
• Experience building production-grade APIs and services
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams

## Bonus

• Experience building data processing or ETL pipelines
• Familiarity with document processing, OCR, or AI/ML integrations
• Experience with queueing systems (e.g., SQS) and event-driven architectures
• Experience optimizing systems for high throughput and low latency
• Background in financial services, insurance, or other data-intensive industries
• Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS company