Backend Engineer - Hybrid, AI-Powered Data Pipelines

Worky; Bozeman (MT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Company holidays

Hybrid-friendly environment

Job summary

GetWhys is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build the systems powering our product and to connect GetWhys with customer tools. You’ll work across backend services, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines to ingest, transform, and serve data across internal and external platforms.

You’ll evolve our LLM-powered workflows and backend architecture as product usage grows. This role suits someone who thrives designing reliable software in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a backend, platform, or infrastructure-focused software engineer.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript for building production backend systems.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services in production.
• Comfortable designing APIs and data modeling decisions.
• Experience integrating with third-party platforms or APIs and working with webhooks, rate limits, retries, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience moving data between systems, including transforming, mapping, normalizing, or synchronizing data from different sources.
• Comfortable debugging distributed workflows, observability, and reliability.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs in early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services powering GetWhys’ core product.
• Build integrations with external platforms via APIs, webhooks and other integration patterns.
• Design systems for ingesting, transforming, normalizing, and synchronizing data between GetWhys and third-party systems.
• Own APIs, data models, and services supporting customer-facing product features and internal tooling.
• Work with both structured and unstructured data, including pipelines that support search, analytics, and AI-powered workflows.
• Design reliable background jobs and asynchronous workflows for processing and moving data.
• Improve the reliability, performance, observability, and scalability of production systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to turn ambiguous product problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Help evolve backend architecture as usage, integrations, and data volume grow.

Skills

TypeScript

Backend development

API design

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Observability

Troubleshooting

Job description

GetWhys is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build the systems powering our product and to connect GetWhys with customer tools. You’ll work across backend services, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines to ingest, transform, and serve data across internal and external platforms.

You’ll evolve our LLM-powered workflows and backend architecture as product usage grows. This role suits someone who thrives designing reliable software in a fast-moving startup environment.