Senior Backend Software Engineer

📋 Description

• Design and ship AI-powered features end to end. You own quality, latency, and cost.
• Build backend services and APIs that hold up under real load.
• Instrument what you ship, watch the numbers, fix what's wrong.
• Review code and designs critically. Push back when something doesn't add up.
• Help taking prompt, retrieval, and agent changes from experiment to production.
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life wellness.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong Python and a track record of shipping and operating production backends.
• Solid AWS, including serverless (Lambda).
• SQL and NoSQL (DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Postgres). you understand access patterns and where things fall over.
• APIs you've actually designed, integrated, and monitored in production.
• Event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS).
• Production observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerts (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Comfort with distributed systems and loosely-scoped problems.

🎁 Benefits

• Free Gold+ membership with access to onsite gyms and studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental wellbeing support, and more! Add up to three family members to your plan, ensuring access to wellness for those who matter most to you.
• A complete emotional wellbeing program with a unique approach. It offers personalized journeys that combine individual therapy sessions and on-demand content.
• Healthcare, dental, and life insurance.
• Flexible work: hybrid and remote options to give you the freedom to work in a way that suits you. The model for this specific role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. When you join, use our home office reimbursement to set up your home office.
• Flexible schedule: shape how and when we get things done across time zones and teams.
• Paid time off and parental leave policies with comprehensive vacation and leave provisions.