Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

HumanSignal is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team and help build out a scalable platform for their Label Studio Enterprise product. The engineer will collaborate with other backend engineers on new features, establish best practices, identify areas of improvement, provide leadership, and mentorship. The role requires extensive experience in building high-performance distributed systems, APIs, and web endpoint frameworks, as well as expertise in database and data warehouse systems, streaming event and messaging architectures, and production experience with Python or similar languages.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and building high-performance and high-scale distributed backend systems
• Experience building applications and services on public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
• 5+ years of professional experience building application support by REST APIs and web endpoint frameworks (FastAPI, Django)
• Production experience with Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Scala or Rust languages
• Expert knowledge of database and data warehouse (Postgres, BigQuery)
• Expert knowledge of streaming event and messaging architectures (Spark, Beam, Kafka)
• High user empathy, product-value centric, and a desire to understand and impact product metrics
• A passion and aptitude for impactful communication at a Sr+ SWE IC level
• BSCS, related degree or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other backend engineers on new and existing features
• Participate in all aspects of the development process
• Establish standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
• Identify areas of improvement in the code base
• Drive change by being an advocate for improvements
• Provide leadership and mentorship to teammates

Benefits

Base cash compensation range is $140,000 to $200,000 USD