Senior Back End Engineer

Join the Cake Team 🍰

Cake Equity is on a mission to accelerate startup team motivation through equity—used by over 17,000 startups across 70+ countries. We’re looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to build and maintain the robust, scalable systems that power our equity platform. If you're driven by clean code, performance, and solving complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll do‍

• ‍Build & Innovate: Architect, develop, and maintain the backend systems that drive our equity platform, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate: Work hand-in-hand with product, front-end ninja's, and wider development team to translate complex business requirements into robust backend solutions.
• Design APIs: Create and enhance GraphQL APIs that power our front-end interfaces, ensuring seamless data flow and user experience.
• Scale & Optimize: Continuously monitor, optimize, and scale our systems to support a rapidly growing user base.
• Own & Evolve: Take responsibility for key backend components, contributing to the technology roadmap, interest in LLMs/ML and championing best practices across the team.

Must haves

• 10+ years of backend development experience in technology-driven companies (startup experience is a bonus).
• Expertise in Python and Django for building modern, scalable web applications.
• Solid experience with SQL databases—think data modelling, query optimisation, and efficient data handling.
• Proven experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS and GCP, with a good grasp of deploying and scaling applications using Docker.
• A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and secure code, with an eye for performance.
• Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines is a big plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently within a distributed team.

Why Cake?

• ‍Culture. Think lunchtime surfing and yoga, regular get-togethers – we value creative, healthy lifestyles and have a work-hard & enjoy life ethos.
• Growth. Join a team that’s hungry & humble, health-oriented, built on trust, with belief of strength in diversity.
• Benefits. Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave, birthday leave, flexible remote work + your own equity (Cake ESOP) compensation of course!
• Tools & Tech: Work with cutting-edge tools like AWS, GCP, Docker, Django, and GraphQL in a dynamic, innovative environment. Must be in Australia, we have a beautiful office in Palm Beach, Gold Coast if you want to relocate.
• Global team. Work alongside a tight-knit, mission-driven crew across US, Portugal and Australia.‍‍

Important. Salary range based on experience. Studies show that women and people from other underrepresented groups tend to apply for roles only when they meet every qualification. But at Cake, we value diversity of experience and perspective, so if you’re excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to tell us why your front end skills are excellent and apply anyway!