Senior Backend Data Engineer

Pendulum; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Remote work flexibility

Health insurance (employee)

Job summary

Pendulum is seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer to extend a web-scale data ingestion and processing pipeline. You will lead tech decisions, improve scalability, and leverage cloud technologies and AI/ML models to deliver robust data solutions.

You’ll design APIs and backend systems, work with distributed compute, and mentor a growing engineering team in a fast-paced environment. This role offers remote flexibility and strong equity benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed compute and large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong backend software engineering with API design focus.

Responsibilities

• Build enterprise-grade APIs, backend services and data stores for diverse domains.
• Ship commercial solutions that scale to large user bases.
• Operate ML and big data components, applying cloud tech and AI/ML models.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

AWS Lambda

API design

Distributed computing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/CS or Computer Engineering

Tools

DynamoDB

API Gateway

Lambda

Cognito

Job description

About the role

We are currently seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer who can help drive the efforts to extend our web-scale data ingestion and processing pipeline. As part of this team, you will work as a tech leader and subject matter expert to improve the scalability, robustness, and value of our data ingestion and processing pipeline while leveraging the latest cloud technologies and AI / ML models.

What you’ll do

• Build our enterprise grade APIs: Our platform encompasses a broad spectrum of use-cases across a variety of domains. We need you to help build the APIs, backend services and data stores to empower our customers.
• Ship commercial solutions: Our users have a huge job to do, at a massive scale. So, we need to build tremendous, powerful software that just works.
• ML and big data in real life: Data and ML are at the core of what we do, and we are operationalizing them so that risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams at large companies and organizations can unlock their power. Doing so requires versatile, yet opinionated products - which require versatile, but opinionated engineers.

What you’ve done

• Strong Industry Experience: Shown a steady upward career progression in the art of Software Engineering.
• Complex Architectures: Design, implement, and maintain platforms, engines, or frameworks that others consume. Deliver APIs consumed by modern web applications with an understanding of the complexities and nuances of microservices and databases.
• Distributed compute & big data: You’ve worked with distributed compute, and have tackled the performance challenges of large scale data. You’ve used serverless AWS components as building blocks like API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, and DynamoDB.
• Modern Backend Expertise: Build backend services and systems with languages like Python, Rust, or Go, and understand the complexities and nuances of CRUD, Graph API, and microservices.
• CS Fundamentals: Earned at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Collaborate closely with product and sales teams to translate complex business needs into intuitive, performant tools.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small but growing engineering team, setting coding standards, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.

What we offer

• Grow as a professional by working with emerging technologies in a high-demand industry segment
• Drive company direction at a company that encourages input from all levels to help shape our trajectory
• Experience working at a technology company in which the mission focus is on tackling one of society’s greatest challenges
• Learn from industry and government experts who value initiative and encourage innovation
• Enjoy the flexibility to work remotely, unlimited PTO, company (and two personal-choice) holidays
• Receive excellent benefits, including 100% employer-paid employee health premiums for an individual, 401(k), and FSA

The Senior Backend Engineer / Data Engineer position offers a base salary range of $150,000 to $240,000, along with equity and comprehensive benefits. Please note that this range serves as a guideline; actual total compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skill set, qualifications, and geographic location.