Senior Backend Engineer - Remote Data Pipelines & Big Data

Open Opportunities; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health benefits

401(k)

21 days vacation

Remote options

Lunch provided

Job summary

Urban SDK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable data-intensive systems using Python and modern big data tooling in the United States. You will own data pipelines, APIs, and backend services that process large datasets with Pandas, PySpark, Parquet, and Databricks, enabling analytics and visualization products at scale.

You will mentor other engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate with front-end, data, and product teams to ensure reliability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or data engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Deep experience with dataframes (Pandas, PySpark, Dask, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with big data processing and distributed systems.
• Strong experience working with Parquet and columnar data formats.
• Experience using Databricks in production environments.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, performance tuning, and memory optimization.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs (REST and/or gRPC).
• Strong debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and data pipelines using Python.
• Work extensively with dataframes (Pandas, PySpark, or similar) to process large datasets.
• Build and optimize data pipelines using Parquet and columnar storage formats.
• Develop and maintain workflows on Databricks.
• Optimize performance for large-scale, distributed data processing.
• Design and maintain APIs that support data-heavy applications.
• Collaborate closely with front-end, data, and product teams.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability.
• Participate in architectural decisions and technical planning.
• Mentor other engineers and lead code reviews.

Skills

Python

Dataframes

Distributed systems

API development

Debugging

Tools

Databricks

Parquet

Pandas

PySpark

Dask

Job description

Urban SDK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable data-intensive systems using Python and modern big data tooling in the United States. You will own data pipelines, APIs, and backend services that process large datasets with Pandas, PySpark, Parquet, and Databricks, enabling analytics and visualization products at scale.

You will mentor other engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and collaborate with front-end, data, and product teams to ensure reliability