Backend Systems Engineer — Low-Latency APIs & Pipelines

Backstory; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Backstory.ai is seeking a Software Engineer on the XCore team to build and maintain foundational systems powering identity, authorization, audit logging, and BI data exports. You will design low-latency APIs, data pipelines, and scalable distributed systems to keep the platform reliable and fast.

You’ll work with senior engineering leadership in a focused environment, contributing end-to-end on features from requirement discussions with Product to production monitoring, while improving

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building backend systems in an enterprise environment.
• 1+ years of programming in Python or Scala.
• Strong understanding of microservices and SOA.
• Familiarity with databases, caching, and low-latency service design.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs with reliability.
• Exposure to data synchronization patterns and high-consistency data pipelines.
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and contribute incremental improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performant, low-latency APIs and distributed microservices handling identity, authorization, user profiles, settings, and product configurations
• Implement and maintain data pipelines that move large volumes of data with consistency and reliability, including audit-log systems and BI data exports
• Maintain and improve existing features based on user feedback and evolving product requirements
• Follow and promote engineering best practices, including structured logging, cross-service request tracking, and robust error management
• Contribute to production observability through alerting, dashboards, and runbooks
• Build tooling to reduce manual operations for engineering teams and support customer support self-service workflows
• Contribute to feature development end-to-end: from participating in requirement discussions with Product, through implementation, to production monitoring

Skills

Backend engineering

Python/Scala

Microservices/SOA

REST APIs

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Spark

Observability

Job description

Backstory.ai is seeking a Software Engineer on the XCore team to build and maintain foundational systems powering identity, authorization, audit logging, and BI data exports. You will design low-latency APIs, data pipelines, and scalable distributed systems to keep the platform reliable and fast.

You’ll work with senior engineering leadership in a focused environment, contributing end-to-end on features from requirement discussions with Product to production monitoring, while improving