Backend Engineer

Deel; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Opportunities for growth

Team-building events

Company retreats

Job summary

A technology startup based in New York seeks a backend developer to work on their RF spectrum software platform. The role involves designing clean interfaces and optimizing applications for performance. We're looking for someone with strong proficiency in Python, experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure. Competitive salary, equity opportunities, and team-building events are offered in this dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Deep proficiency in Python for backend development and experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience building scalable systems using Kafka or similar message brokers.
• Familiarity with container orchestration and cloud-native design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design clean, extensible interfaces for complex business logic.
• Implement secure identity management and resilient communication across services.
• Optimize applications for performance and resource utilization.
• Reconcile fragmented schemas and normalize data from legacy sources.

Skills

Strong Python Experience

Expertise in Event-Driven Architectures

Cloud Infrastructure knowledge

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Overview

Airbase builds the software platform for radio frequency spectrum licensing, coordination, and intelligence. Backed by a16z, we are a fast-moving, dual-use startup transforming wireless communication from a static bottleneck into a dynamic, software-defined advantage.

Today, the world’s most advanced hardware—from satellite mega-constellations to Army UAS swarms and Electronic Warfare systems—is grounded by 20th-century paperwork. Spectrum coordination relies on fragmented databases, missing systems of record, and decades of static PDFs. Airbase is fixing this. We’ve built novel AI pipelines to digitize this analog bureaucracy and translate it into a software-defined, machine-readable data layer. We are transforming the spectrum from a static bottleneck into a dynamic advantage, delivering machine-speed tactical deconfliction for the military and automated licensing for commercial innovators.

What you’ll do:

• Architect core application logic and APIs - Design clean, extensible interfaces that encapsulate complex business logic and maintain high-throughput performance.
• Build robust authentication and service orchestration - Implement secure identity management and ensure resilient communication across distributed services to maintain system integrity under heavy load.
• Optimize for performance and system health - Leverage a deep understanding of latency, throughput, and resource utilization to build highly responsive applications for high-stakes environments.
• Integrate and modernize disparate systems - Reconcile fragmented schemas and normalize inconsistent data formats from legacy sources into a coherent, high-performance application layer.

You should have:

• Strong Python Experience – Deep proficiency in Python for backend development, including experience with asynchronous programming and understanding of web framework internals.
• Expertise in Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) - Experience building scalable, decoupled systems using Kafka or similar message brokers.
• Cloud Infrastructure - Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud-native design patterns.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Rust - Practical knowledge of building memory-safe, high-performance services, with an emphasis on safe concurrency and low-latency execution.
• Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and equity in an early stage startup.
• Regular team-building events and company retreats.

Airbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.