Software Engineer - Back End (New York)

About the role

We're looking for Backend Engineers who care deeply about the craft of building software: strong typing, thoughtful API design, robust data modeling, and systems that are a pleasure for other engineers to work with. You won't be building AI models, you'll be building everything around them: the platform, workflows, interfaces, integrations, and observability that make our AI useful in the real world. As an early engineer at Edra, you'll shape not just the product but the engineering culture, tooling choices, and technical foundations the company is built on.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform systems in Python (Fast API), from API contracts to database schema and infrastructure
• Build and maintain connectors, integrations, and data pipelines that connect our platform to external systems
• Build internal libraries, tooling, and interfaces that make the rest of the engineering team more productive
• Own your work fully: gather context, manage dependencies, and drive tasks to completion without a product manager handing you tickets
• Participate in weekly product meetings, understand how customers and forward deployed engineers use what you build, and shape what gets built next
• Collaborate daily with a small, high-caliber team of engineers and AI specialists
• Have direct influence on technical direction: choose tools, set patterns, and establish conventions the team will build on for years

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering (but a computer science degree is not necessarily required)
• A love of writing Python and/or TypeScript to a genuinely high standard–well-modeled, well-typed, and well-documented. Strong typing feels like a superpower, not a chore
• Experience building libraries, SDKs, or internal tooling that made other developers' lives easier (and you’ve enjoyed it)
• You light up when designing a clean database schema and take real pride in getting data models right
• You're at your best when you own a problem end to end — comfortable with ambiguity and energized by turning a vague problem into a well-scoped solution
• You're drawn to building foundational systems from scratch — greenfield work where your decisions compound over time excites you

Qualifications

• Exceptional people with unique skills and interests are encouraged to apply
• If your primary interest is building agentic systems, working with LLMs, or doing applied ML, check out our AI Engineering role–it might be a better fit

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Compensation Range: $195K - $275K