Staff Backend Engineer — Platform Core at Archer56

Archer56

San Jose, California, United States·3d ago

LeadFull-timeAWSPostgreSQLGoAIAPI

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer - Platform Core to join Archer, an aerospace company building all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. This role is responsible for building the connector framework and ingestion services that power a foundational data and services platform that unifies enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

→Framework Engineering: Build reusable plumbing for connectors including authentication, circuit breaking, retries, and idempotency
→Canonical Mapping: Design logic to map inconsistent enterprise data into strongly-typed entities
→Reliability: Implement synchronization strategies with watermark management
→Replayability: Build infrastructure to store raw API responses for data reprocessing
→Performance: Optimize for high-volume synchronization focusing on PostgreSQL performance
→Observability: Define and monitor metrics for throughput, data drift, and error rates
→Collaboration: Work with platform architect on schema evolution and entity contracts

Requirements

✓6+ years in backend engineering with distributed systems experience
✓Proficiency with Go or similar languages
✓PostgreSQL expertise in schema design, indexing, and performance tuning
✓Experience with idempotent systems, dead-letter queues, and backpressure management
✓Delta syncs experience with watermark tracking and safe recovery mechanisms
✓Cloud Native experience deploying and managing services in AWS