Senior Software Engineer (Matching)

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Matching team, you will work on Backstory’s foundational technology — matching business activities to business context
• You will handle a vast amount of business data, perform data-driven research, design and develop algorithms and microservice architecture, write machine learning and automation code, and build scalable systems that power the AI-engine behind Backstory’s products
• We value ownership highly — the ability to take an idea through all the stages from conception to shipping a product
• This reflects throughout our company, but is especially true in engineering. As an engineer at Backstory, you’ll be a part of a highly independent and autonomous team
• Since we’re building out a robust data layer that needs to be presented elegantly to the end-user, you’ll be working with a large array of different technologies and fields. Expect lots of interesting challenges
• Design and implement core backend services and data pipelines
• Perform data-driven research using big data and leveraging Data Science toolset
• Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services
• Provide appropriate test coverage, unit and integration testing, with focus on performance and cost efficiency for your feature ownership areas
• Ensure robust alerting, dashboards, and runbooks for production services are in place
• Collaborate within the team and with other engineering teams to build new features and products according to business needs
• Follow software design and development best practices and promote such practices in the team

Benefits

• Company Equity: We offer compensation packages that allow you to share in our long-term success.
• Flexible Work: We are a remote-first company. Work from home or join us at our San Francisco-based HQ.
• Home Office Perks: We offer a monthly phone and Internet allowance, as well as office setup reimbursement for new hires.
• Flexible PTO: Batteries, even proverbial ones, need to be recharged. Take the time you need when you need it.
• Company-wide Holidays: We schedule holidays for everyone to be offline at once to unplug and recharge.
• Inclusive Parental Leave: For birthing and non-birthing parents, plus adoption and foster leave.
• Healthcare Packages: We offer medical, dental, and vision plans, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care.
• Insurance Coverage: Employer-paid life insurance, AD&D, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Save for your retirement on a pre-tax and/or post-tax basis.

• Understanding of SOA, microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Experience with AI development tools (especially agentic AI) is a plus
• 5+ years of professional experience working on backend systems in an enterprise environment
• Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark)
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS solutions
• 3+ years experience with data analysis / data science tasks and/or ML
• Experience with an enterprise-grade stack for scalable web apps including messaging broker, in-memory storages, NoSQL, and key-value databases
• 2+ years experience programming in Python 2.x/3.x or Scala or Java
• Strong knowledge of TDD, Unit, and automated test paradigms
• Experience developing systems based on LLM is a plus