Staff Backend Developer

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.
About the Role
As a Staff Backend Developer at ABBYY, you will serve as the technical leader for a backend feature team, translating product goals into scalable, high-quality engineering solutions.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with significant leadership influence, responsible for driving technical direction, mentoring engineers, and raising the engineering bar across the team. You will operate at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and technical strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

- Own the technical direction and architecture of your team’s backend services

- Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear, well-scoped technical plans

- Author and review Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

- Identify and proactively address systemic technical debt

- Establish and uphold standards for code quality, testing, and operational readiness
Backend, Cloud & Edge Architecture

- Design and build scalable backend services using .NET (C#) and/or Node.js/TypeScript

- Architect workloads for Kubernetes , including resource management, health checks, and scaling strategies

- Make informed architectural decisions across AWS and Azure environments

- Design and implement edge compute solutions using Cloudflare Workers and related services

- Partner with Platform Engineering and SRE on deployment pipelines, observability, and reliability
Mentorship & Enablement

- Mentor engineers across all levels through code reviews, pairing, and technical coaching

- Lead knowledge-sharing sessions and deep dives on architecture and best practices

- Model and establish standards for effective AI-assisted development workflows

- Partner with Engineering Managers to provide input on performance, growth, and promotion readiness
Delivery & Collaboration

- Collaborate closely with Product Management on discovery, refinement, and delivery planning

- Participate in agile ceremonies and cross-functional discussions

- Proactively communicate risks, trade-offs, and dependencies to stakeholders
Qualifications

- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience

- Expert-level proficiency in .NET (C#) and/or Node.js/TypeScript

- Strong production experience with Kubernetes

- Solid working knowledge of AWS and/or Azure

- Production experience with Cloudflare Workers and edge services

- Deep understanding of distributed systems and API design
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