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Senior Backend Engineer – Features Team
Posted 2 months ago
About the role
- Senior Backend Engineer building applications and APIs for a real-time data crisis alert platform. Collaborating across teams to enhance the reliability and quality of alerts delivered to users globally.
Responsibilities
- Implement and iterate on microservices and APIs consumed by the alert pipeline and samdesk applications
- Add new data sources to the pipeline, ensuring correct parsing, enrichment, and routing
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks in dataflow before they reach production
- Design and document APIs for consumption by front-end teams and external integrations
- Report on health of key system components
- Design and implement AI agents that coordinate LLM inference with our real-time data pipeline
- Build and maintain the orchestration layer governing how language models interact with structured pipeline outputs
- Integrate with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, including prompt engineering, tool use, and response handling at scale
- Ensure agent workflows are observable, testable, and fault-tolerant in production
- Architect and deliver internal tools used by operations, ML, and QA teams to monitor, debug, and improve alert quality
- Identify gaps in developer and analyst workflows and build solutions that meaningfully reduce toil
- Contribute to the roadmap and participate in architectural decision-making
- Set the bar for code quality through rigorous code review and mentorship
- Ensure adequate test coverage across components so systems can be safely extended
- Decompose complex requirements into accurate effort estimates
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus
- Expert-level proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or Python
- Hands-on experience with OpenAI and/or Anthropic APIs, including tool use, streaming, and prompt management
- Deep experience designing and building scalable REST or GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Docker and containerized application architecture
- Expertise leveraging AI Coding tools
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