Backend Engineer

About the role

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and operate high-volume data processing systems that transform sensitive enterprise data into reliable, AI-ready datasets. This role is ideal for an engineer who has hands-on experience owning production backend systems and enjoys solving complex problems involving asynchronous processing, distributed systems, data pipelines, reliability, and large-scale workloads. You will work closely with engineering, machine learning, security, and product teams in a fast-paced environment where engineers have significant ownership and impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale multi-stage, high-volume data processing pipelines.
• Develop backend systems that process and transform sensitive enterprise data.
• Own backend services throughout design, development, deployment, debugging, and maintenance.
• Design reliable asynchronous workflows using queues, workers, concurrency, and batch processing.
• Implement safe handling of retries, checkpoints, partial failures, backfills, rollbacks, and recovery.
• Build systems that detect data quality issues, duplicated outputs, stale data, and silent failures.
• Develop internal tools and dashboards to monitor pipeline performance and data quality.
• Maintain reliable data provenance and support operational decision-making.
• Work with object storage and cloud-based processing infrastructure.
• Collaborate with ML, full-stack, platform, and security engineers to support new data types and product capabilities.
• Improve system scalability, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Experience with high-volume or multi-stage data processing systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed and asynchronous backend architecture.
• Experience with queues, workers, concurrency, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Strong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience designing and building backend APIs and services.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to take ownership of systems from design through production operation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another relevant STEM field.
• Ability to work on-site five days per week in Brooklyn, NY.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at an early-stage or high-growth technology startup.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-based backend systems.
• Experience with batch processing or workflow orchestration.
• Experience building data processing or AI-data infrastructure.
• Experience working with sensitive or privacy-sensitive datasets.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, data quality, and system performance tooling.
• Experience collaborating with machine learning or AI engineering teams.
• Strong full-stack awareness with the ability to understand how backend systems interact with user-facing applications.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact AI data infrastructure.
• Significant ownership within a growing technology organization.

Pay

$220,000–$300,000 annual salary, based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

On-site – Brooklyn, New York. This position requires working five days per week in the Brooklyn office.