Senior Backend Engineer

An interesting and well-funded Stealth mode Startup company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer.

In this role, You will be part of a small, highly experienced engineering team, building a complex, cloud-native product from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with deep ownership, real architectural impact, and meaningful technical challenges.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a very early stage stealth company backed by top investors and serial founders.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient backend systems in a cloud-native environment
• Take part in architecture and design decisions for core product components
• Develop high-quality, production-grade code with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, and other engineering teams
• Own features end-to-end: from design through implementation, testing, and production
• Work with modern development workflows, including AI-assisted development and code review tools

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Senior Backend/Principal/Staff engineer - must
• Strong backend development experience with Python - must
• Proven experience building complex systems in cloud-based, B2B SaaS environments
• Experience with AWS (or other major cloud providers)
• Proven track record delivering greenfield cloud-native systems
• Experience working in startup environments or small, fast-moving teams - must
• High level of ownership, independence, and strong time-management skills
• Deeply technical, high-agency, and comfortable owning complex systems end to end
• Data-driven and pragmatic, with uncompromising quality standards
• Fluent Hebrew (spoken and written)