Staff Backend Engineer | Remote, US & Canada

The role

A Staff Backend Engineer will shape architectural patterns, infrastructure standards, and engineering habits. You will work as a strategic individual contributor to transform business needs into robust distributed systems.

What you will do

• Set architectural direction and establish engineering patterns
• Design and evolve complex backend systems
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices and LLM agent systems
• Deliver strategic initiatives from infrastructure to monitoring
• Foster a culture of observability
• Act as a technical leader during production incidents
• Mentor engineers and remove technical blockers
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and deployment strategies

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep knowledge of Django internals including middleware, database routing, management commands, signals, and performance optimization
• Experience building and evolving distributed systems across cloud infrastructure
• Experience debugging complex concurrency challenges such as race conditions, distributed deadlocks, async failures, and large-scale database performance issues
• Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy
• Ability to explain architectural trade-offs to executives, product partners, and engineers

Nice to have

• Familiarity with FP&A domain concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflows

Benefits

• 100% covered employee medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• FSA/HSA options
• Free memberships to OneMedical, Teladoc, and Talkspace
• Flexible paid vacation and sick/mental health time
• Stock options
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for the birthing parent
• Quarterly learning budget for books, classes, or events

Before you apply

• Open to candidates authorized to work in the posted location
• Immigration sponsorship is not available at this time

About the company

Cube is a financial intelligence platform that unifies fragmented data into a centralized command center. The company has raised over $65M and is recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Places to Work in 2026.