Staff Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Data Pipelines

Hudson Talent Solutions; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Headspace app access

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement plan

Volunteer days

ESG initiatives

Job summary

Noetica is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack in a hybrid role to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will write high-performance server-side code, craft API contracts, and collaborate with ML researchers and product teams to deliver end-to-end features while improving CI/CD and production operations.

Within the team, you’ll contribute to frontend work when needed, optimize data-heavy tasks, and take ownership of engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of professional full-stack development with a backend focus.
• Strong experience with Node.js, Python, or Go and API design.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, database design, and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform.
• Write maintainable, high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines.
• Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions.
• Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite productionization of insights.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and internal ML systems.
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed to deliver features end to end.
• Work on performance optimization for data-intensive backend operations.
• Take ownership in engineering excellence and code practices for long-term maintainability.
• Improve/ automate CI/CD and other day-to-day production operations.

Skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Self-starter

Distributed systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Node.js

Python

Go

RESTful APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

TypeScript

React

Job description

Noetica is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack in a hybrid role to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will write high-performance server-side code, craft API contracts, and collaborate with ML researchers and product teams to deliver end-to-end features while improving CI/CD and production operations.

Within the team, you’ll contribute to frontend work when needed, optimize data-heavy tasks, and take ownership of engineering