Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time Data, Hybrid, Equity

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; King of Prussia (PA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision

Life and AD&D insurance

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend features that process real time outage data for enterprise customers. You will write Python, build scalable services, and operate in a hybrid King of Prussia, PA setting.

The role emphasizes ownership, production reliability, and collaborating on APIs, message queues, and data pipelines within a fast-growing SaaS context.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Experience building or maintaining backend services that communicate through APIs or message queues.
• Experience debugging and resolving issues in production environments.
• Ability to break down technical problems, ask good questions, and propose solutions.
• Excited to work in a startup environment with changing priorities and meaningful ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship backend features and services.
• Write and maintain backend Python code.
• Build and maintain services that communicate through APIs and message queues.
• Work with real time outage data and data intensive systems.
• Identify and implement improvements across the software and operational stacks.
• Investigate, debug, and resolve production issues.
• Perform detailed data analysis and build reports.
• Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews.
• Write tests and documentation for the systems you build.

Skills

Backend experience

Ownership

Problem solving

APIs

Real-time data

Production debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python 3

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

SmartRecruiters, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend features that process real time outage data for enterprise customers. You will write Python, build scalable services, and operate in a hybrid King of Prussia, PA setting.

The role emphasizes ownership, production reliability, and collaborating on APIs, message queues, and data pipelines within a fast-growing SaaS context.