Senior Backstage Engineer (Backend-focused)

US Company is searching for Backstage Engineer (Backend-focused) into the team of 5-6 engineers: 3-4 developers + 1 AQA + 1 DevOps. Interesting middle-term project (6-7 months), distributed team, full-time, an official contract. Remote work, flexible schedule.

Brief project description:

• Building custom Backstage platform, including custom plugins, backend integrations, API proxies, scorecard engines, scaffolder actions, and entity extensions.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Build custom Backstage backend plugins:
• API Try-It console (Keycloak token injection)
• Spring Cloud Gateway integration
• CSPM integration
• Instana integration
• Scorecards + rule engine
• Implement entity processors, backend routes, authentication handlers.

Integration Development:

• Integrate with:
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Argo CD
• SonarQube
• Prometheus
• CSPM APIs

Required skills:

• 2+ years building Backstage plugins or deep experience extending frameworks in Node.js/TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of Backstage core concepts: Catalog Backend plugins Scaffolder TechDocs ** Entity processors
• Strong TypeScript / Node.js engineering skills.
• Strong API integration experience.
• Familiar with OAuth2/OIDC and secure token flows.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native tooling.

Work conditions:

• Distributed team, remote work.
• Kanban or scrum approach, 5-6 team members / team.
• Full-time (40 hours per week).
• Official contract: salary, sick-leave days, holidays, vacations.

Hiring process:
Step 1 - preliminary interview (main questions) - 20 mins
Step 2 - internal tech interview (tech questions) - 40-50 mins
Step 3 - tech interview with team leader and architect + demo of the architecture - 1 hrs