Senior Backend Engineer

Deck is building the data infrastructure for the internet. We make scattered, login-protected data instantly accessible through clean APIs and integrations—empowering businesses to act fast and smart, with no friction.

We’re a team of builders from top-tier tech companies who believe one thing: great ideas need great data. If you thrive in early-stage chaos, own your work like a founder, and think in frameworks—not features—Deck might be your next home.

Build the backbone of our platform. Ship fast. Own your work.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale our orchestration layer, the foundation of our data gathering platform. You'll build the services that coordinate thousands of concurrent data flows, manage authentication, handle retries and failures gracefully, and ensure reliable delivery across 100,000+ sources.

You'll also scale our APIs, but the real challenge is the orchestration: sequencing jobs, managing state, and keeping everything running smoothly when external systems behave unpredictably.

You'll work closely with product and frontend teams to ship features that customers actually use. This isn't a role where you wait for specs. You'll help shape what we build and how we build it.

You'll thrive here if you're equal parts architect and builder, with a bias for shipping clean, production-grade code quickly.

• Design and scale our orchestration layer: job sequencing, state management, retries, and failure recovery

• Build Go APIs that power our core data platform

• Integrate with third-party services: ingesting, normalizing, and validating messy external data

• Scale backend systems on GCP (or equivalent cloud infrastructure)

• Collaborate with product to build tools users love, not just features that ship

• Write tests and own the quality, reliability, and uptime of your services

• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural decisions that shape our platform

Core Requirements

• 5+ years writing production Go: you know concurrency patterns, goroutines, channels, and how to profile and optimize

• Experience building distributed backend services in high-stakes environments where uptime matters

• Strong API design skills: RESTful APIs, handling edge cases, retries, rate limits, and building abstractions that scale

• Solid data modeling chops: relational (Postgres, SQL Server) and NoSQL, with experience building ingestion pipelines

• Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred): deploying, managing, and scaling containerized workloads

Technical Stack

• Languages: Go (primary), familiarity with Python a plus

• Cloud: GCP (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Firestore/BigQuery) or equivalent

• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

• Databases: Postgres, SQL Server, NoSQL systems

• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cloud Monitoring, or similar

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or equivalent

Bonus Points

• Experience with AI/ML pipelines (TensorFlow, PyTorch)

• Contributions to open-source Go projects

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues

• Background in fintech, data platforms, or high-compliance environments

• Competitive pay for the right skills

• Proven leadership with a track record of big results

• Significant ownership and autonomy in how you operate

• A team of exceptional peers tackling complex, high-leverage problems

• Momentum: recent fundraise by top-tier investors, massive whitespace, and accelerating traction

Deck isn’t just a product—it’s a mission. We believe that businesses should spend more time thinking and building, and less time wrestling with data plumbing. If that vision excites you, and you’re energized by early-stage speed, ambiguity, and intensity—let’s talk.

Before applying, take a look at our Constitution. If you don't dislike it, there's a good chance you’ll love working here.