Pendulum

Senior Backend Data Engineer

Pendulum

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build our enterprise grade APIs: Our platform encompasses a broad spectrum of use-cases across a variety of domains. We need you to help build the APIs, backend services and data stores to empower our customers.
  • Ship commercial solutions: Our users have a huge job to do, at a massive scale. So, we need to build tremendous, powerful software that just works.
  • ML and big data in real life: Data and ML are at the core of what we do, and we are operationalizing them so that risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams at large companies and organizations can unlock their power. Doing so requires versatile, yet opinionated products - which require versatile, but opinionated engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong Industry Experience: Shown a steady upward career progression in the art of Software Engineering.
  • Complex Architectures: Design, implement, and maintain platforms, engines, or frameworks that others consume.
  • Deliver APIs consumed by modern web applications with an understanding of the complexities and nuances of microservices and databases.
  • Distributed compute & big data: You've worked with distributed compute, and have tackled the performance challenges of large scale data. You've used serverless AWS components as building blocks like API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, and DynamoDB.
  • Modern Backend Expertise: Build backend services and systems with languages like Python, Rust, or Go, and understand the complexities and nuances of CRUD, Graph API, and microservices.
  • CS Fundamentals: Earned at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Collaborate closely with product and sales teams to translate complex business needs into intuitive, performant tools.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small but growing engineering team, setting coding standards, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Benefits
  • unlimited PTO
  • company (and two personal-choice) holidays
  • 100% employer-paid employee health premiums (50% for dependents)
  • 401(k)
  • FSA
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Hard Skills & Tools
API developmentbackend servicesdata storesmicroservicesdistributed computingbig dataPythonRustGoCRUD
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinginnovationadaptabilityteamworkorganizational skillsbusiness acumen
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s Degree in Computer Science