Backend Architect / Staff Engineer

Backend Architect / Staff Engineer

Company: TruthScan
Location: Fully Remote (Global)
Hours: 100% Flexible

About TruthScan

We help enterprise companies detect AI fraud at massive scale. As AI-generated content and sophisticated fraud tactics multiply, our systems act as the ultimate line of defense. We are a small, elite, fully remote team, and we are currently entering a hyper-growth phase.

The Challenge

We are looking for a world-class engineer to sit squarely at the intersection of deep backend engineering, DevOps, and systems architecture. Our current immediate mandate is to scale our architecture 20x to 100x in the next six months to seamlessly serve millions of requests per minute.

You will be given full autonomy. We don't care when you work or how you structure your day, as long as you are highly results-driven and can execute at the highest level alongside our current lead backend engineer.

What You Will Do

Support the architectural roadmap to scale our systems to handle millions of requests per minute.
Bridge the gap between application code, database performance, and cloud infrastructure.
Optimize our data ingestion, processing pipelines, and query latency.
Build observability and alerting to ensure our high-availability targets are met.
Act as a multiplier for the engineering team—mentoring other developers and elevating our overall technical standards.

The Tech Stack

Primary Language: Python (Deep expertise required. Familiarity with Go, Rust, or Node.js/TypeScript is highly desirable).
Data: PostgreSQL, Supabase.
Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, DigitalOcean, Vercel.
Observability & Search: DataDog, OpenSearch.

Who You Are

A Systems Thinker: You don't just write backend endpoints; you understand how the code, the database, and the infrastructure interact under extreme load.
Battle-Tested: You have successfully scaled systems to millions of RPM before and have the scars to prove it. You know what breaks at scale and how to prevent it.
Highly Autonomous: You thrive in environments with zero micromanagement. You can take a high-level business goal and translate it into a deployable architectural reality.
A Pragmatic Problem Solver: You know when to engineer a custom, complex solution and when to leverage existing tools to get the job done faster.

Compensation & Perks

Top-Tier Pay: We compensate extremely well. Because we are a global, fully remote company, we do not list a single static number, but we pay at the top of the market localized to your country of residence.
True Flexibility: 100% remote, work whenever you are most productive.
Impact: You will be a foundational pillar of a company fighting on the front lines of the AI revolution.