Cube
Staff Backend Engineer | Remote, US & Canada
Remote - United States & Canada · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 10+ years of professional software engineering experience; flexibility for exceptional candidates demonstrating strong Staff-level impact, ownership, and technical leadership.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the posted location; immigration sponsorship is not available.
About the job
A strategic backend engineering individual contributor who shapes architecture, infrastructure, and engineering practices while delivering reliable distributed systems for financial workflows.
What you'll do
- Set architectural direction and build backend systems, reusable abstractions, and engineering standards.
- Lead strategic initiatives end-to-end, including infrastructure, deployment, observability, and production incident remediation.
- Mentor engineers and improve AI-assisted development, CI/CD, testing, and release practices.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of Python and Django internals, including performance optimization in high-scale, multi-tenant environments.
- Strong experience building distributed systems across cloud infrastructure and resolving complex concurrency and database performance issues.
- Experience with dataframe-based computation tools such as Pandas, Polars, or NumPy.
- Proven ability to establish engineering standards, create reusable abstractions, and improve developer velocity.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with FP&A concepts such as trial balances, charts of accounts, fiscal calendars, scenario modeling, and multi-currency workflows.
- Early adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor or Claude Code.
Tools
Python, Django, DRF, MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery
AI focus
Lead adoption of AI-assisted development practices and LLM agent systems in production; use AI-assisted engineering workflows to increase velocity while maintaining reliability and code quality.
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