Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Monte Carlo, a leading AI100 company, as a Backend Engineer to build and improve our cloud application for Data Observability. You will be involved in the entire development lifecycle, from requirement formulation and design to production implementation and operation. Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers to create impactful solutions for our customers. This role offers the flexibility of working remotely anywhere in the Americas. The position requires 3+ years of experience in backend development, strong Python skills (Django), and experience with cloud technologies. You will be responsible for building backend services, owning projects from start to finish, and ensuring the quality and scalability of your code. The company offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity package.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience delivering production-grade backend code, performing code reviews, and working on cloud, data, and web applications
• You have strong Python skills (we use Django) or mastery of similar backend technologies in a large, complex codebase
• You test your work (with automation) and follow traffic as customers use your features
• You lead critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization

Responsibilities

• Building production-grade backend services and APIs to delight customers
• Owning major projects from inception to deployment, shipping at a rapid pace
• Architecting simple yet flexible solutions, and then scaling them as we grow
• Testing, releasing, and operating your code in production
• Navigating with some ambiguity while solving problems and pursuing solutions to difficult challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience in some of: Serverless applications, especially with AWS and Lambda
• Data-driven applications, with tools such as PySpark
• The needs of data engineers and analytics teams, such as with Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, or many similar tools (our customers)
• Observability - a love of software APMs, debugging tools, and uptime metrics
• You collaborate with your team in a remote-first environment
• You get your urgency from user feedback and product vision
• You're pragmatic and biased towards action; you're able to see the bigger picture and reason about prioritization and scope

Benefits

This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity package