• You are a Senior-level Backend Software Engineer with experience building performant API services that serve data at large scale
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar technical or engineering discipline
• 7+ years of software engineering experience specializing in backend services
• Proficient with Python (Django) to serve large scale datasets
• Experience running software and services in the cloud
• Proficiency with SQL on RDBMS and data warehouse solutions like Redshift
• Proficiency with maintaining fault tolerant systems in production
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Desirable

• We are in search of a talented Senior Backend API Software Engineer specializing in scalable data serving via Restful APIs, and working with big data sets from various databases
• This position will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing data infrastructure
• You will be a key player empowering us to make data-driven SaaS applications and internal system integrations that will fuel our innovation and growth
• Design and develop RESTful APIs for internal data consumers using performant API frameworks such as Python Django, NodeJS or similar
• Ensure optimal latency, authentication, and scalability of Spotter Data API. Follow API server best practices and standards
• Implement and maintain backend transactional databases and document stores, ensuring data integrity and consistency
• Work closely with the data engineering team to understand existing datasets that need to be queried via API endpoints
• Work with various database systems (Postgres, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, vector databases, data warehouses) and data lake technologies, applying optimization techniques for scalable queries
• Explore new scalable solutions to meet our growing needs
• Work with product engineering team to learn about the upcoming needs
• Benchmark existing solutions periodically to ensure low latency, make recommendations when needed