Software Engneer Backend -

The North Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions provider is seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer in San Francisco. The role involves building backend APIs and a web application powered by advanced machine learning algorithms. Candidates should have a CS degree from a top university, 1-10 years of experience, strong software engineering skills, and proficiency in Python and AWS. This position requires in-office collaboration at least three days a week, contributing to a mission of democratizing trustworthy AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 1 - 10 years of experience in software engineering and data platform architecture.
• Previously built significant backend distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Python beyond scripting.
• Strong AWS development experience, writing apps/services using the infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build backend APIs.
• Develop a user-friendly web app powered by data-centric ML algorithms.

Skills

Software engineering

Data platform architecture

Python programming

AWS development

Backend distributed systems

Education

CS degree from a top university

Job description

Overview

About the job Software Engneer Backend -

About the role

Our Client mission is to democratize safe, trustworthy, and reliable AI. We believe the most promising path to such AI follows a data-centric approach. We build open-source algorithms and no-code SaaS solutions based on our research to help individuals and teams systematically and algorithmically curate high-quality datasets, which enables AI systems to train reliably on real-world messy and error-prone data.

As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for building the backend APIs, a user-friendly web app powered by our data-centric ML algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Build backend APIs
• Develop a user-friendly web app powered by our data-centric ML algorithms

Qualifications

• 1 - 10 years of experience software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. We just want really bright engineers, and believe they can learn any new tech stack in a week.
• Strong software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. You have likely built significant backend distributed systems.
• CS degree from a top university (MIT, Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkeley etc).
• Able to work in-office with the team in San Francisco at least 3 days a week.
• Previous experience at a top-tier tech company or startup.
• Strong experience with Python beyond scripting (most of our Backend is written in Python).
• Strong AWS development experience. Not "just" setting up infra, but also writing apps/services using the infra.
• Solid understanding of current and future cloud offerings and risks related to security, privacy, data ingestion, processing, and storage.