Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
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Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
Location: New York City | Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite
Compensation:
Up to $240,000 Base + Equity + BonusWe’re partnering with a fast-growing AI-native consumer intelligence platform that is transforming how major brands understand consumer behaviour and make strategic decisions. The platform brings together data from social media, consumer reviews, market research, internal systems and other sources to uncover emerging trends, generate actionable insights and help enterprise teams make faster, smarter decisions. They are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) who can combine strong hands-on engineering skills with the ability to think about architecture, scalability and system design at a higher level.
The Role:
You’ll join a highly technical, early-stage engineering team building the backend infrastructure behind an AI and data intelligence platform operating at enterprise scale.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Designing, building and scaling production backend services using Python and GoArchitecting high-volume data ingestion and processing pipelines
- Building APIs supporting real-time, AI-driven enterprise applications
- Developing and scaling distributed systems and microservices
- Working with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Processing large volumes of structured and unstructured data
- Collaborating closely with AI/ML engineers to integrate intelligent models and workflows into production
- Working with emerging technologies including graph databases and Graph RAGDesigning systems for reliability, fault tolerance, observability and performance
- Contributing directly to system architecture and long-term technical decisions
- Helping establish backend engineering best practices as the team continues to grow
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience 3+ years of professional Python experience
- Strong hands-on backend engineering experience
- Experience building production systems at scale
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong understanding of backend architecture and system design
- Experience working with large-scale data processing or data-intensive applications
- Ability and willingness to pick up Golang where required
- Comfortable remaining highly hands-on with coding
- Strong ownership mentality and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment
Experience within a startup, scale-up, founding engineering team or other high-ownership environment would be highly desirable.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a well-funded business at an early stage and have meaningful influence over its architecture, product and engineering culture.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Build technically complex systems from the ground upWork on large-scale AI and data infrastructure
- Have genuine ownership over architecture and technical decisions
- Join an experienced technical founding team
- Help shape the engineering function as the company scales
- Receive meaningful early-stage equity alongside a competitive compensation package
Compensation & Benefits:
- $160,000–$240,000 base salary + meaningful equity + bonus
- LocationNew York City - this is a hybrid position requiring 4 days per week onsite in NYC.Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Strong mid-to-senior level candidates who meet the core technical requirements may also be considered.