Senior Backend Data Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Backend Data Engineer: Extend web-scale data ingestion and processing pipeline with an accent on scalability, robustness, and value leveraging cloud technologies and AI/ML models. Focus on building enterprise-grade APIs, backend services, data stores, and operationalizing ML and big data for risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $150,000 to $240,000

Company

hirify.global offers comprehensive social data coverage across video, audio, image, and text content from platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit using proprietary ML technology.

What you will do

• Build enterprise-grade APIs, backend services, and data stores for diverse use-cases across domains.
• Ship reliable commercial solutions at massive scale for customer needs.
• Operationalize ML and big data to empower risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guide architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with product and sales teams to translate business needs into performant tools.

Requirements

• Location: Must be in the United States for remote work
• Steady upward career progression in software engineering.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining platforms, engines, or frameworks with APIs for web apps, microservices, and databases.
• Work with distributed compute, big data performance challenges, and serverless AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, DynamoDB).
• Backend expertise in Python, Rust, or Go, understanding CRUD, Graph API, and microservices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely with flexibility.
• Unlimited PTO and company holidays plus two personal-choice holidays.
• 100% employer-paid health premiums (50% for dependents), 401(k), and FSA.
• Equity in the company.
• Grow with emerging technologies, input on company direction, and learning from experts.