Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering

Touchdown Labs; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Touchdown Labs is seeking an experienced software engineer to build customer workflows, APIs, and backend services that connect user requests to models and data. The role covers product interfaces, backend services, APIs, and operating tools, with emphasis on reliable workflows, traceable data, and clear handling of failures.

You will own deployment, monitoring, incident follow-up, and developer experience, ensuring robust failure handling, audit trails, and proper permissions.

Competenze

• Production software experience in backend, full-stack, platform, or data systems.
• Strong fundamentals in testing, debugging, API design, data modeling, and asynchronous work.
• Experience designing authentication, authorization, validation, and failure handling.
• Sound judgment about tradeoffs, with a focus on visible failure states and clear ownership.
• Ownership from issue discovery through deployment, monitoring, and verification.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Mansioni

• Build and maintain customer-facing workflows, APIs, backend services, data models, and internal tools.
• Turn manual delivery and research processes into dependable software while preserving necessary human review.
• Connect identity, customer inputs, model execution, evaluation, artifacts, usage records, and support processes.
• Define workflow states and behavior for queues, retries, failures, review, promotion, and rollback.
• Protect customer and research data with scoped permissions, validation, retention controls, and audit trails.
• Own deployment, monitoring, incident follow-up, documentation, and developer experience.

Conoscenze

Backend API design

Data modeling

Testing & debugging

Asynchronous workflows

Security & access control

Ownership & accountability

Descrizione del lavoro

Role overview

Build the software that supports customer workflows and internal operations, connecting user requests to models, evaluations, data, and infrastructure. The role covers product interfaces, backend services, APIs, and operating tools, with an emphasis on reliable workflows, traceable data, and clear handling of failures.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain customer-facing workflows, APIs, backend services, data models, and internal tools.
• Turn manual delivery and research processes into dependable software while preserving necessary human review.
• Connect identity, customer inputs, model execution, evaluation, artifacts, usage records, and support processes.
• Define workflow states and behavior for queues, retries, failures, review, promotion, and rollback.
• Protect customer and research data with scoped permissions, validation, retention controls, and audit trails.
• Own deployment, monitoring, incident follow-up, documentation, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Production software experience in backend, full-stack, platform, or data systems.
• Strong fundamentals in testing, debugging, API design, data modeling, and asynchronous work.
• Experience designing authentication, authorization, validation, and failure handling.
• Sound judgment about tradeoffs, with a focus on visible failure states and clear ownership.
• Ownership from issue discovery through deployment, monitoring, and verification.
• Ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript and Python, cloud or self-hosted systems, security and privacy, AI applications or evaluation, data pipelines, or developer tooling.