Senior Backend Engineer: Data Ingestion & AI/OCR Pipelines

Salt Digital Recruitment; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in a hybrid role based in Redwood City. The position focuses on owning a data ingestion platform with OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing, emphasizing distributed systems and scalable architectures.

You will take ownership of Temporal architecture, collaborate with production infrastructure, and build fault-tolerant systems at scale. 2 days on-site required in Redwood City, CA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Python.
• Strong production experience with Temporal.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong AWS experience.
• Experience operating and debugging production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing.
• Focus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability.
• Take significant ownership over Temporal architecture.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure.
• Build durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems.

Skills

Python

Temporal

Distributed systems

AWS

Production systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

S3

DynamoDB

SQS

Redis

Job description

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in a hybrid role based in Redwood City. The position focuses on owning a data ingestion platform with OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing, emphasizing distributed systems and scalable architectures.

You will take ownership of Temporal architecture, collaborate with production infrastructure, and build fault-tolerant systems at scale. 2 days on-site required in Redwood City, CA.