Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Talent Matching

Medium; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 16,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity (ISOs)

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Medium in Boston seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build the core backend services behind talent matching, including search, scoring, ranking, and the APIs that deliver matches to some of the largest HR technology organizations in the world, and to Medium's staffing business.

This hands-on role focuses on production services, serving layer, and APIs to operate reliably and at low latency, with AI-assisted development as a default approach.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with Python
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production APIs and backend services at scale
• Experience designing asynchronous APIs (queues, events, webhooks, or streaming) and reasoning about concurrency
• Strong fundamentals in testing, observability, and debugging across distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the backend services and APIs that power talent matching in production
• Build asynchronous, event-driven APIs and pipelines that stay fast and reliable under load
• Partner with Data Science to take their matching and language models from prototype to reliable production services
• Use AI-assisted development daily to design, write, test, and review code, and help set our standards for it
• Own quality for what you ship: testing, monitoring, latency, and cost
• Collaborate with Product and Operations to turn real recruiter and candidate needs into shipped features

Skills

Python

API design

Distributed systems

AWS

LLM tooling

Testing/Observability

Performance optimization

Tools

Postgres

CDK

SQS

VectorChord

Job description

Medium in Boston seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build the core backend services behind talent matching, including search, scoring, ranking, and the APIs that deliver matches to some of the largest HR technology organizations in the world, and to Medium's staffing business.

This hands-on role focuses on production services, serving layer, and APIs to operate reliably and at low latency, with AI-assisted development as a default approach.