A well-funded New York based startup focused on building a new platform that lets individuals display and own the media they love is looking for a Senior Backend to join the team. They are rapidly growing with a Series A on the way and have a lot of room to continue to grow the platform and focus on their mission of putting individuals in control of their digital identities.
Responsibilities:
- Architect scalable data processing pipelines that transform user consumption data into valuable features
- Design and implement data-driven APIs that power user experiences and insights in Shelf
- Build the services, pipelines, and data to power new product capabilities
- Support long-term scalability of our architecture
- Guide/mentor other engineers (note: this is still an IC role)
- Implement metrics and monitoring systems to ensure high reliability of production systems
- Make critical technical decisions that balance product needs with engineering excellence
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing data systems that transform raw data into actionable insights.
- Direct experience with systems processing hundreds of millions of data points daily
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Production experience with real-time analytics platforms (i.e., Druid, Clickhouse, Pinot) and/or cloud data warehousing (i.e., Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Expert-level experience building scalable event-streaming systems with technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Google Cloud PubSub, Flink
- Strong proficiency with relational databases, including PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS
- Strong technical expertise with Node.js
- Familiar with setting up automated testing, continuous integration/deployment pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi).
Role is on-site in New York City (company is not offering relocation - please be in the New York metropolitan area or able to commute into the city) . Role offers competitive salary+equity + benefits.