Senior Backend Architect — Data Ingestion & Pipelines

King River Capital Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Axion is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build and scale production data ingestion systems that bring customer data into the platform. This senior individual contributor role includes direct architectural ownership and measurable product impact.

You will work with customer, service, field and enterprise data from many systems, ensuring data integrity, robust pipelines, and observable services. The role demands a data‑first mindset, mentoring others, and strong collaboration with

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of backend software engineering with Python fluency.
• Strong cloud architecture experience—designing, deploying, and operating distributed services in production, with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Demonstrated depth with Postgres and relational data modeling, including performance, migrations, and schema design under real production load.
• A track record of solving genuine data integration problems: heterogeneous sources, messy real-world inputs, and turning all of it into something reliable that downstream systems can depend on.
• A pragmatic, tools-not-platforms approach to the data ecosystem—you pick the right technology for the problem rather than building an identity around a single proprietary stack.
• A track record of technical mentorship; you make the engineers around you better without needing formal authority.
• A firm believer in a "Data First" philosophy who can make sound decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving situations.
• A strong executor in fast-paced environments who can balance shipping MVPs with a commitment to production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture for our data ingestion system, including ingestion pipelines, schema mapping, validation, transformation, and the orchestration that carries customer data from the source to production-ready dataset.
• Build and harden the backend services and cloud infrastructure (Python, Postgres, and Kubernetes) that make onboarding a new manufacturer fast, repeatable, and observable, rather than a bespoke engineering project every time.
• Solve integration challenges at the source: enterprise warranty, telematics, ERP, and service systems with inconsistent schemas, unreliable delivery, and no shared vocabulary between them.
• Establish rigorous data quality and reliability standards (validation, lineage, monitoring, and alerting) so that pipeline degradation is caught by us before it's noticed by a customer.
• Partner across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams to shape the technical vision and roadmap for data onboarding workflows.
• Raise engineering standards through code review, design docs, and the technical direction others build on.
• Mentor engineers on data architecture and system design, unblocking hard problems and sharing context generously.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Cloud architecture

Data modeling

Mentorship

Data governance

Tools

Postgres

Kubernetes

SQL

ETL

Job description

Axion is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to build and scale production data ingestion systems that bring customer data into the platform. This senior individual contributor role includes direct architectural ownership and measurable product impact.

You will work with customer, service, field and enterprise data from many systems, ensuring data integrity, robust pipelines, and observable services. The role demands a data‑first mindset, mentoring others, and strong collaboration with