Senior Software Engineer — Matching
About the role
Responsibilities
- Design and implement core backend services and data pipelines.
- Perform data-driven research using big data and leveraging Data Science toolset
- Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services.
- Provide appropriate test coverage, unit and integration testing, with focus on performance and cost efficiency for your feature ownership areas.
- Ensure robust alerting, dashboards, and runbooks for production services are in place.
- Collaborate within the team and with other engineering teams to build new features and products according to business needs.
- Follow software design and development best practices and promote such practices in the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience working on backend systems in an enterprise environment
- 3+ years experience with data analysis / data science tasks and/or ML
- 2+ years experience programming in Python 2.x/3.x or Scala or Java
- Experience with AI development tools (especially agentic AI) is a plus
- Experience developing systems based on LLM is a plus
- Understanding of SOA, microservices, and event-driven architecture
- Experience with an enterprise-grade stack for scalable web apps including messaging broker, in-memory storages, NoSQL, and key-value databases
- Strong knowledge of TDD, Unit, and automated test paradigms
- Experience with SQL and RDBMS solutions
- Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark)
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Backstory is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital. Backstory is listed in the top 20 percent of Inc 5000 companies, is a regular leader in our key categories on G2, and is on the Forbes list of America’s Best Startup Employers. For more information, please visit . Originally posted on Himalayas
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