Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Recommendations Platform - Boston

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Recommendations Platform in Boston. You will join a team building backend services powering product recommendations across channels, with large-scale data pipelines and real-time inference considerations.

You will collaborate with ML engineers and product stakeholders to productionize models, define interfaces, ensure data quality, and maintain observability. A strong background in Python and cloud-native, containerized environments is expected.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Python and open to other languages.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to backend services powering product recommendations with reliability and clear APIs.
• Maintain large-scale data processing pipelines transforming events into features for models.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize models and define feature contracts.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Backend development

AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

Apache Spark

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Socket.dev is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Recommendations Platform in Boston. You will join a team building backend services powering product recommendations across channels, with large-scale data pipelines and real-time inference considerations.

You will collaborate with ML engineers and product stakeholders to productionize models, define interfaces, ensure data quality, and maintain observability. A strong background in Python and cloud-native, containerized environments is expected.