Senior Backend Engineer

Remote Full Time Technology Experienced

Location: USA, remote

About Us

Invaluable is one of the world’s largest online live auction marketplaces. We’re modernizing the auction experience by connecting millions of passionate bidders and buyers with auction houses across the globe. Our industry-leading live online bidding platform lets customers participate in premier auctions in real time—from their home, office, or mobile device.

Role Summary

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll deliver new features, improve performance and reliability, reduce technical debt, and help shape backend standards and long-term strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering partners while mentoring teammates and raising the bar through thoughtful engineering practices.

This role is fully remote from anywhere in the United States, with east coast business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship features end-to-end across any tier of the Invaluable platform, from implementation through testing and deployment.
• Improve quality and maintainability by refactoring legacy areas and reducing technical debt with pragmatic, incremental changes.
• Own reliability and performance: diagnose production issues, squash bugs, and improve UX with measurable outcomes.
• Drive backend architecture and standards: propose patterns, tooling, and conventions that improve developer experience and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively through pairing, code reviews, and shared problem-solving, including communicating clearly across time zones.
• Mentor and support engineers by sharing best practices, offering feedback, and helping others grow through guidance and technical leadership.
• Partner with Product and Design to clarify requirements, scope work, identify tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality user experiences.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Stro