Backend Engineer, High-Performance APIs (Remote)

Carbon Arc, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Remote work options

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Carbon Arc, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team and contribute to the core Carbon Arc platform.

You will help integrate diverse data sources into a powerful, responsive intelligence hub and build APIs and services that expose massive data assets securely to internal teams and external customers. In a fast-paced startup environment, your decisions will have meaningful technical and product impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep API design and integration with backend data sources.
• Strong Python backend development (FastAPI, Django, or Flask).
• Experience with React frontend and modern JS stacks.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Airflow/Prefect for data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs for large data assets.
• Develop high-performance APIs supporting terabytes of data.
• Ensure APIs are intuitive for internal and external users.
• Implement monitoring and observability with traceability back to source systems.
• Contribute to reliability, security, and performance of services.
• Participate in architectural discussions and best practices.

Skills

REST APIs

Python

React

Node.js

SQL

JSON/Parquet

IAM security

Proactive mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Prefect

Job description

Carbon Arc, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team and contribute to the core Carbon Arc platform.

You will help integrate diverse data sources into a powerful, responsive intelligence hub and build APIs and services that expose massive data assets securely to internal teams and external customers. In a fast-paced startup environment, your decisions will have meaningful technical and product impact.