Staff Backend Developer

About this role

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.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

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. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.

About the Role

As a Staff Backend Developer at ABBYY, you will serve as the technical leader for a backend feature team, translating product goals into scalable, high-quality engineering solutions.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the technical direction and architecture of your team’s backend services

• Translate ambiguous product requirements into clear, well-scoped technical plans

• Author and review