Senior Data Modeling Engineer - Backend & Analytics (EU)

Backstory; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Backstory.ai is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Modeling team to help complete the Unified Data Platform (UDP) that unifies all Backstory products under one architecture and improves data freshness. You will build and maintain the services, REST APIs, databases, and big data jobs that provide Backstory’s insights.

Working with the larger Engineering and Product teams, you will take “activity” and “CRM objects” data provided by other teams and make it available for consumption to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in an enterprise environment.
• 2+ years of experience programming in Python or Scala
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (Spark, Hive, Hadoop, MapReduce, or similar)
• Experience with stream processing technologies such as Kafka, Apache Samza, or Apache Storm
• Experience with Elasticsearch is a plus
• Experience with LLMs or NLP is a plus
• Familiarity with analytical databases and ETL pipeline design
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering elegant, practical solutions
• Experience taking ownership in an unfamiliar or legacy codebase and incrementally improving it
• Strong inclination toward automation and reducing manual operational toil

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services, REST APIs, databases, and big data pipelines that power customer-facing insights and analytics.
• Implement and maintain near-real-time stream-based data processing pipelines in collaboration with batch-oriented data refresh workflows.
• Develop and evolve a query engine capable of answering complex, cross-deal/account questions and delivering actionable insights for sales managers and executives.
• Scale data processing and insights generation pipelines to handle growing volumes of activity data (emails, meetings, transcripts, CRM objects) while managing infrastructure costs.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to translate business and customer needs into robust, well-documented technical solutions.
• Follow and promote software development best practices, delivering clean, maintainable, and well-monitored code.
• Build internal tooling to enable customer support teams to investigate and resolve support requests in a self-service manner.
• Ensure high-quality alerting, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks are in place for all production services.

Skills

Backend development

Python/Scala

Distributed systems

Big data processing

Stream processing

Elasticsearch

NLP/LLMs

ETL design

Analytical thinking

Automation

Tools

Kafka

Apache Spark

Hive

Hadoop

Samza

Storm

Elasticsearch

Job description

Backstory.ai is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Modeling team to help complete the Unified Data Platform (UDP) that unifies all Backstory products under one architecture and improves data freshness. You will build and maintain the services, REST APIs, databases, and big data jobs that provide Backstory’s insights.

Working with the larger Engineering and Product teams, you will take “activity” and “CRM objects” data provided by other teams and make it available for consumption to