Backend Engineer, Data-Centric ML APIs (SF On-site)

The North Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions provider is seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer in San Francisco. The role involves building backend APIs and a web application powered by advanced machine learning algorithms. Candidates should have a CS degree from a top university, 1-10 years of experience, strong software engineering skills, and proficiency in Python and AWS. This position requires in-office collaboration at least three days a week, contributing to a mission of democratizing trustworthy AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 1 - 10 years of experience in software engineering and data platform architecture.
• Previously built significant backend distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Python beyond scripting.
• Strong AWS development experience, writing apps/services using the infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build backend APIs.
• Develop a user-friendly web app powered by data-centric ML algorithms.

Skills

Software engineering

Data platform architecture

Python programming

AWS development

Backend distributed systems

Education

CS degree from a top university

Job description

About the job Software Engneer Backend -

About the role

Our Client mission is to democratize safe, trustworthy, and reliable AI. We believe the most promising path to such AI follows a data-centric approach. We build open-source algorithms and no-code SaaS solutions based on our research to help individuals and teams systematically and algorithmically curate high-quality datasets, which enables AI systems to train reliably on real-world messy and error-prone data.

As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for building the backend APIs, a user-friendly web app powered by our data-centric ML algorithms.

Candidate requirements

1 - 10 years of experience software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. We just want really bright engineers, and believe they can learn any new tech stack in a week.

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Nice-to-haves
Experience running production code in cloud environments, solving problems at scale.

Deep understanding of both open-source libraries, frameworks, and systems, and experience deciding when to build from scratch vs use existing solutions.

Strong software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. You have likely built significant backend distributed systems.

CS degree from a top university (MIT, Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkeley etc).

Able to work in-office with the team in San Francisco at least 3 days a week.

Previous experience at a top-tier tech company or startup.

Strong experience with Python beyond scripting (most of our Backend is written in Python).

Strong AWS development experience. Not "just" setting up infra, but also writing apps/services using the infra.

Solid understanding of current and future cloud offerings and risks related to security, privacy, data ingestion, processing, and storage.