Staff Backend Developer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw PanoWQ"><span class="OYPEnA">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.</span></p> <p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw"><span class="OYPEnA">Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.</span></p> <p class="cgHgbA nxe3IQ Xp24Nw"><span class="OYPEnA">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. </span><span class="OYPEnA">Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, </span><span class="OYPEnA">including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as </span><span class="OYPEnA">DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.</span></p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the Role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As a </span><span data-contrast="auto">Staff Backend Developer</span><span data-contrast="auto"> at ABBYY, you will serve as the technical leader for a backend feature team, translating product goals into scalable, high-quality engineering solutions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Key Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Technical Leadership</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Own the technical direction and architecture of your team’s backend services</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear, well-scoped technical plans</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":2,"335559740":300}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Author and review </span><span…