Sr Backend Engineer (Python)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- USA - NY - New York City - BlueFlame AI / Grata
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
- Solid experience with Python.
- Strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working with and building user facing features.
- Familiarity with AWS and its suite of services.
- Experience working with event-driven microservice architectures in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience in collaboration on features from the conceptual phase through to release.
- Bonus points if you have experience with ElasticSearch or MongoDB
Full description
Datasite and its associated businesses are the global center for facilitating economic value creation for companies across the globe. From data rooms to AI deal sourcing
and more. Here you’ll find the finest technological pioneers: Datasite, Blueflame AI, Grata, and Sherpany. They all, collectively, define the future for business growth.
Apply for one position or as many as you like. Talent doesn’t always just go in one direction or fit in a single box. We’re happy to see whatever your superpower is and find the best place for it to flourish.
Get started now, we look forward to meeting you..
Job Description:
We are looking for a Sr Backend Engineer (Python) to join our team! The ideal candidate is a passionate and experienced professional with a strong track record of developing efficient, high-performance technologies.
You'll bring your expertise in engineering principles, exceptional system design skills, and a product-focused mindset to enhance our data systems and applications, delivering even greater value to our enterprise users. If you're excited about contributing to a cutting-edge private company search engine, we want to hear from you!
This is a hybrid position in NYC with 3 days in office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What You Will Do:
- Craft high-quality code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for scalable software systems. Uphold and advocate for these standards during code review.
- You will work closely with a Full Stack team to deliver new user experiences
- Drive improvements to product quality, security, and performance that impact your team
- Optimize the runtime of our distributed system, including AWS services, databases, and our search engine. Your goal will be to achieve ambitious performance targets at all levels of our architecture, from the customer-facing API down to the lowest layer.
- Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers to develop new AI-powered features.
- Design and deploy scalable data infrastructure within a distributed event-driven architecture.
- Prototype and experiment with new technologies and tools as part of ongoing innovation efforts.
What we are looking for:
- Minimum of 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
- Solid experience with Python.
- Strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.