RocketReach

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

RocketReach

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and build distributed systems that process billions of events per day
  • Build performant, reliable APIs that support thousands of customer applications and integrations
  • Develop and maintain customer-specific solutions, ensuring SLA commitments are met
  • Build and maintain data pipelines (ETL, batch processing, enrichment workflows)
  • Work with large datasets across systems like S3, Redshift, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB
  • Optimize SQL queries and data access patterns for performance and cost efficiency
  • Develop processes for cleaning and enriching large-scale datasets
  • Analyze algorithms, models, and LLMs for quality, performance, and cost tradeoffs
  • Collaborate closely with product and data teams to ship features quickly and iteratively

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Are located in the Central or Eastern time zones
  • Are proficient in Python
  • Have strong SQL skills
  • Have experience working with large datasets
  • Have experience building or maintaining data pipelines or backend systems at scale
  • Are familiar with REST API best practices
  • Have experience with ORMs (e.g., Django, SQLAlchemy)
  • Have experience with AWS services (Redshift, Fargate, S3, RDS, IAM, OpenSearch, DynamoDB)
  • Have strong communication and interpersonal skills
Benefits
  • Competitive Salary
  • 401(k) matching
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Strong Leadership - we care that you are happy at work!
  • Investment in culture and resources for a distributed team
  • Incredible amount of autonomy
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLETLbatch processingdata pipelinesalgorithmsmodelsLLMsREST APIORMs
Soft Skills
communicationinterpersonal