This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Backend Engineer - Feature Flags in the United States.
As a Backend Engineer on the Feature Flags team, you will design, build, and optimize a high-performance service that delivers real-time feature evaluations for millions of users. You will work on the critical path of customer applications, ensuring ultra-low latency, reliability, and scalability. This role offers the opportunity to own services end-to-end, influence architectural decisions, and implement innovative solutions for complex, distributed systems. You will collaborate with a distributed engineering team across multiple time zones, applying cutting-edge technologies like Rust and Python while constantly improving performance and observability. This is a high-impact role where your work directly shapes the user experience and the efficiency of production systems.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain the feature flags evaluation engine end-to-end
- Optimize service performance to achieve millisecond-level response times under high load
- Build scalable and reliable systems handling millions of requests per minute
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams to implement new targeting features and address customer-specific needs
- Profile applications, implement caching strategies, and fine-tune data access patterns to reduce latency
- Ensure code quality, observability, and API usability for both internal and external developers
- Participate in performance benchmarking, production monitoring, and incident resolution when required
Requirements
- Strong experience with backend systems and programming languages such as Python, Rust, or similar
- Proven ability to build high-throughput, low-latency services (millions of requests per minute)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, performance optimization techniques, and caching strategies
- Experience designing APIs and creating clean, maintainable, and scalable architecture
- Comfortable making high-level architecture decisions and rapidly implementing solutions
- Familiarity with observability systems, benchmarking, and profiling tools
- Experience with feature flag systems or real-time decision engines is a plus
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and complex technical challenges
Benefits
- Fully remote work within U.S. time zones (GMT-8 to GMT+2)
- Opportunity to work on high-impact systems used by millions of users
- Collaborate with a distributed, highly skilled engineering team
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and modern backend architectures
- Professional growth and ownership of end-to-end service development
- Competitive compensation and benefits package aligned with experience and skills
Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.
When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.
🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.
📊 It compares your profile to the job's core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.
🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the three candidates with the highest match to the role.
🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.
The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role.
Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.
Thank you for your interest!
