Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the development of new features
• Collaborate with tact and lead with empathy across the organization on system architecture, technology, and scaling decisions
• Mentor more junior members of the team
• Design relational and non-relational data models for optimal storage, retrieval, and complex processing/calculations
• Drive technical architecture discussions and peer code reviews
• Collaborate effectively with Data Science, Product, and across engineering teams to push boundaries, shape our roadmap, and deliver on our mission

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing software with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages - Python required
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Cody) to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar
• Experience evaluating and deploying LLM-based systems in production (latency, cost, reliability trade-offs)
• 4+ years building distributed systems at scale
• 4+ years with a modern data stack (RDS, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, lakehouse architectures, real-time databases, dbt, etc.)
• Deep SQL and data modeling expertise
• Experience working across the organization delivering on large impact initiatives
• Nice to have:
• Experience developing highly available API using modern frameworks (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
• Experience developing applied AI/ML-enabled features
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, or fine-tuning

Benefits

• Total compensation ($170,000 - $200,000)
• Equity compensation
• Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents
• 401K, FSA, and commuter benefits
• $150 monthly spending account
• $1,000 annual continued education benefit
• $500 Newbie Productivity Perk
• Unlimited PTO and sick days
• Monthly Company Wellness Day Off
• Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office
• Team building events
• Hybrid RTO of 2 days per week in office