Lead Backend Engineer
Attaina day ago
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HybridFull-timeSenior
Summary
Attain is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join their team in Redwood City, CA. The role involves serving as the backend technical anchor for the Frisbee consumer application and leading execution across mobile engineering teams.
About the Role
As the Lead Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and own backend services that power the Frisbee consumer experience. You will be responsible for backend systems that manage business logic, feature flags, and user experience configurations. The role requires collaboration with mobile engineers to define APIs and data models, and you will act as the technical owner for major initiatives from design through production.
About You
Required:
- 6+ years of experience building and owning backend systems in production environments.
- Strong experience designing APIs, service boundaries, and data models.
Preferred:
- Experience evolving complex systems and working with microservice or service-oriented architectures.
- Experience operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience working closely with iOS and Android engineering teams.
- Familiarity with backend- or configuration-driven client architectures.
- Experience with gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Understanding of mobile performance characteristics and constraints.
- Exposure to React Native.
- Experience integrating third-party SDKs (e.g., analytics, scanning, CRM).
Attain
Attain is North America’s leading source for live purchase data, tracking $700B+ in real-world spend. 10M+ consumers choose to share their data through Attain’s suite of financial apps, unlocking real value in exchange for privacy-safe insights. With seamless access to custom audiences through our platform, activation across major media platforms, and white-glove support, Attain helps brands and agencies move faster—and market smarter. Outcomes, not just insights. In real time.
Redwood City, CA