Backend Engineer (Python)

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly catered lunches

Top market salary

401k plan

Medical with 100% deductible reimbursement

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

A technology company in Boston is seeking a Backend Engineer to develop data-intensive applications and improve algorithms for data syncing. The ideal candidate has 2-5 years of experience, strong skills in Python and AWS, and values collaborative programming. We offer top market salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and an engaging office environment.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience with large-scale data-intensive applications.
• Experience with AWS technologies is preferred.
• Strong belief in the importance of testing in development.

Responsibilities

• Develop smarter scheduling algorithms for data syncing.
• Tune the database to improve performance.
• Review and refactor code for report generation.

Skills

Python

AWS (Kinesis, S3, RDS)

Testing practices

Functional programming

Code review & collaboration

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join us working on a suite of products that powers content marketing for B2B companies ranging from small start‑ups to multi‑national companies on the Fortune 500 list.

Team & Culture

At the moment our team is working on developing a data pipeline that ingests millions of web activities and uses attribution models to give deep insights to marketers about their performance. There is some serious engineering behind making all of that work and we want to find people that love tackling hard problems like this head on. We are a very strong team of developers that are focused on helping each other to improve as engineers every day. We write automated tests as part of our development workflow, practice pair programming, perform peer code reviews, and share knowledge in weekly tech talks.

Office & Benefits

We have an amazing office overlooking the Boston Common with a kitchen full of snacks and weekly catered lunches and top market salary, equity package, 401k plan, Medical with 100% deductible reimbursement, dental and vision insurance and gym membership reimbursement.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Has 2-5 years of experience working with large-scale data‑intensive applications, with a preference to python.
• Has experience with AWS technologies such as Kinesis, S3 and RDS.
• Feels that testing is a core part of their development process.
• Has experience or familiarity working in a functional programming style or language.
• Enjoys working closely with other developers, pair programming, reviewing code and sharing ideas.

Responsibilities

• Develop smarter scheduling algorithms for syncing data from external sources.
• Tune the database to reduce bottlenecks.
• Review and refactor code responsible for generating reports that hundreds of marketers rely on.

We love people that thrive on solving tough problems with clean, well‑tested and scalable code.