Senior Backend Engineer - Data Systems & AI Tools (Remote)

Babel Street; Somerville (MA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Traditional and Roth 401(K)

Unlimited flexible leave

12 paid federal holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build and evolve data systems powering enterprise applications. You will design, build, and operate backend services that ingest, process, index, store, and serve large data volumes, collaborating with engineers to plan features and scale systems.

You will use AI-assisted tools to boost productivity while maintaining code quality, security, and reliability. Remote-friendly with preference for Eastern or Central time zones.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, backend production services.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or Lucene-based search platforms.
• Strong SQL Server and T-SQL skills and performance tuning.
• Experience deploying workloads on AWS or GCP.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems with metrics and logs.
• Ability to work independently in a distributed team and in Agile environments.
• Experience delivering software with FedRAMP security controls is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain backend services and data processing pipelines.
• Ingest, process, index, store, and serve large volumes of data.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions and mentor engineers.
• Own services throughout their lifecycle from design to production.
• Participate in on-call rotation and resolve incidents using metrics and logs.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools while ensuring code quality and security.
• Contribute to security compliance with FedRAMP requirements.

Skills

C#

.NET

Elasticsearch

SQL Server

AWS

GCP

Data-intensive backends

Agile development

On-call experience

AI-assisted development

Tools

Elasticsearch

SQL Server

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build and evolve data systems powering enterprise applications. You will design, build, and operate backend services that ingest, process, index, store, and serve large data volumes, collaborating with engineers to plan features and scale systems.

You will use AI-assisted tools to boost productivity while maintaining code quality, security, and reliability. Remote-friendly with preference for Eastern or Central time zones.