Senior Backend Data Engineer - Remote, Equity & PTO

pendulum-intelligence-jobs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Unlimited PTO

Company holidays

Health premiums

401(k) + FSA

Job summary

Pendulum seeks a Senior Backend Data Engineer to drive web-scale data ingestion and processing. You will lead technical initiatives, improving scalability and robustness while leveraging cloud technologies and AI/ML models. You will mentor a growing engineering team and set architectural standards.

Join a mission-driven team delivering enterprise-grade software that enables risk and intelligence teams at large organizations to act on social data. Remote-friendly with strong benefits and equity.

Qualifications

• Strong industry experience in software engineering.
• Design, implement, and maintain platforms and APIs.
• Distributed compute and big data with serverless AWS components.
• Backend services using Python, Rust, or Go.
• CS degree or equivalent.
• Collaborate with product and sales to translate complex needs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Build enterprise-grade APIs and backend services.
• Ship commercial solutions at massive scale.
• Leverage ML and big data to empower risk, intel, and marketing teams.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Distributed compute

Big data

Backend development

Python

Go

Rust

API design

Microservices

CS degree

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

AWS

API Gateway

Lambda

Cognito

DynamoDB

Job description

Pendulum seeks a Senior Backend Data Engineer to drive web-scale data ingestion and processing. You will lead technical initiatives, improving scalability and robustness while leveraging cloud technologies and AI/ML models. You will mentor a growing engineering team and set architectural standards.

Join a mission-driven team delivering enterprise-grade software that enables risk and intelligence teams at large organizations to act on social data. Remote-friendly with strong benefits and equity.