Sr. AI Platform Engineer - Lead Backend & Data (Remote)

Altana; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Health Benefits

Life Insurance and Disability Coverage

401(k) Savings Plan

Commuter Benefits

Wellness program with Calm access

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Altana is seeking an experienced senior engineer to help build and scale AI-driven product platforms, APIs, and workflows. You will collaborate with data scientists on world-scale datasets, write scalable backend services, and deliver customer-facing workflows.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years of backend or data-driven software experience, proven cloud deployments, and a track record from concept to production.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments.
• You’ve deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
• Experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
• Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems.
• You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
• Experience taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals.
• Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps.
• Personally maintain, develop, and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture.
• Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings.
• Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your own and your team’s work.
• Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members, and hold a high bar for quality.
• Mentor developers and help them level up their skills.
• Be responsible for the technical excellence of day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team’s deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap.
• Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable.
• Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them.
• Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area, while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well.
• Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Postgres

Databricks

OpenSearch

Job description

Altana is seeking an experienced senior engineer to help build and scale AI-driven product platforms, APIs, and workflows. You will collaborate with data scientists on world-scale datasets, write scalable backend services, and deliver customer-facing workflows.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years of backend or data-driven software experience, proven cloud deployments, and a track record from concept to production.