Senior Backend Engineer Platform

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Us

At Qloo our cutting-edge Taste AI technology leverages extraordinary amounts of dataover half a billion records of public figures places and things plus a globe-spanning consumer behavior and sentiment databaseto unearth deep insights about consumer preferences. From understanding global travel trends to curating the perfect restaurant recommendation based on your unique tastes our Taste AI engine sifts through the noise to find the signals that matter.

without relying on personally identifiable information. Read more about our recent Series C funding here.

Role Overview

Reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering youll collaborate closely with a team of 5-7 engineers who specialize in backend systems scaling resilience API coding and management. Our team culture is highly collaborative and supportive with everyone committed to raising the technical bar and delivering for our world-class clients.

In this role you will have a direct impact on scaling modernizing and implementing our backend platform. Youll work on high-impact projects such as introducing and coding microservices enhancing observability and driving performance and reliability across our APIs and data pipelines. Youll play a key role in defining best practices and implementation details as we evolve our API gateway and containerized infrastructure. You will also implement features to unlock new capabilities for our clients some of the most recognizable companies in the world powering experiences that reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

Building optimizing and maintaining backend services and APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.

Developing and maintaining internal tools observability systems (logging telemetry metrics) and data pipelines.

Taking on varied technical challenges as priorities shiftwhether thats improving CI/CD workflows enhancing security posture or architecting new systems.

Collaborate closely with a cross-functional engineering team of 67 engineers on delivering microservices and backend infrastructure improvements.

Contributing to infrastructure and deployment strategies using AWS and Terraform.

Championing best practices in testing documentation and automation.

Mentoring teammates and providing technical leadership for complex backend systems.

Qualifications

Strong experience with TypeScript and Express.

Solid AWS infrastructure expertise (ECS VPC networking IAM etc.).

Experience with Terraform (or other infrastructure-as-code tools).

SQL expertise with Postgres preferred.

Experience with Python for scripting or data workflows.

A proven ability to design and deliver backend systems at scale.

We Offer

- Competitive salary and benefits package including health insurance retirement plan and paid time off.

- The opportunity to shape a modern cloud-based data platform that powers real products and ML experiences.

- A collaborative low-ego work environment where your ideas are valued and your contributions are visible.

- Flexible work arrangements (remote and hybrid options) and a healthy respect for work-life balance.

$145000 - $165000 a year

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

About UsAt Qloo our cutting-edge Taste AI technology leverages extraordinary amounts of dataover half a billion records of public figures places and things plus a globe-spanning consumer behavior and sentiment databaseto unearth deep insights about consumer preferences. From understanding global tra...