Senior Backend Engineer

Scout Michael Agency • Austin, TX

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About The Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work directly with the CTO and technical team to architect and implement core data systems. We’re a small team looking to bring on our next team member who is excited about building technology to reshape the real estate landscape. You will be a key member of the early team and will be collaborating with teammates who are also incredibly passionate about building high-quality, design-intuitive, and data-driven consumer products.

Requirements

• Demonstrated system architecture design experience with real-time, event driven, and batch systems
• Willingness and desire to understand business objectives at a deeper level
• Experience in most of our current tech stack: Python, Airflow, Postgres, React Native, TypeScript
• 2 - 6 years of experience engineering data-driven systems
• Working knowledge of DevOps and cloud infrastructure
• Previous experience working at a early stage startup (pre-Series C)
• Experience working with recommendation systems or content feeds

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable data pipelines to support real estate-related recommendation engines, matching algorithms, and other models
• Create, maintain, and expand robust and flexible data foundation that can support various data use cases
• Contribute to database management and optimization of data storage and retrieval
• Consider everything a ‘work in progress’: constantly polish existing features and iterate on feedback
• Serve as a role model and tech lead for the rest of our development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed