Backend Software Engineer

About the role

The Corporate Research Digital Platforms (CRDP) group seeks a Backend Software Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on developing and supporting backend services that power data, analytics, and AI-enabled applications used across R&D enterprise teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workflows
• Develop secure, production-grade APIs exposing analytical datasets and model outputs to internal applications
• Build and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines in partnership with data engineering teams
• Create analysis-ready data models for statistical modeling, machine learning, and AI applications
• Integrate backend services with cloud and data platforms, including Databricks and Delta Lake
• Implement authentication, authorization, and access controls to protect trade secret and IP-sensitive data
• Support MVP-to-scale transitions by improving reliability, monitoring, and operational readiness
• Collaborate with data scientists, materials scientists, frontend engineers, and product teams
• Instrument services with logging, telemetry, and performance monitoring
• Contribute to backend standards, documentation, and best practices within the team
• Provide peer guidance and technical support to team members as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited institution
• 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience delivering production systems
• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade RESTful APIs using a modern programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript)
• 3+ years of experience deploying and operating backend services on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred), using modern DevOps and CI/CD practices

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Databricks ecosystem (Delta Lake, Jobs, SQL endpoints, Unity Catalog)
• Experience supporting analytics, data science, or AI/ML-heavy applications
• Exposure to data governance, lineage, or metadata management concepts
• Experience working in regulated, R&D, or IP-sensitive environments
• Familiarity with observability tools for metrics, tracing, and logging
• Experience supporting pilot or MVP solutions that evolve into production systems
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, team building, and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience working in cross-functional, agile teams
• Proven experience implementing authentication, authorization, and role-based access control in backend systems
• Experience integrating backend services with cloud data platforms (Databricks & AWS preferred)

Benefits

Details on benefits are available at 3M.com/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

Schedule

This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.

Relocation Assistance

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