Software Engineer (Backend)

Wynd Labs

1d•Remote

About The Position

We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world’s most powerful AI models. We're the team that helps to power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that lets us operate a massive distributed crawler, giving us unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale. On top of that, we’ve built pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, powering dataset creation for frontier labs. We’re lean, technical, and move fast. No red tape, no slow decision-making; just a team of builders pushing to expand what’s possible for open web data and AI. We are looking for a Software Engineer (Backend) who is experienced and brings deep expertise in backend development. You will join a small, talented team and lead efforts to architect scalable solutions, drive technical excellence, and support our vision for a future where Grass plays a critical role in shaping the internet's evolution.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in a STEM major or equivalent job experience required
3+ years experience in software development and writing very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain
Knowledge on how to build large scalable systems
Knowledge and experience in identifying and solving issues with intricate, live software systems, as well as in-depth familiarity with contemporary software development processes such as continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to troubleshoot and resolve data flow issues
Professional or native English language proficiency

Responsibilities

Develop new features and software improvements
Test, deploy and debug backend API services
Designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines to process and integrate data from various sources in real-time or batch modes
Write clear, tested, documented code
Create and review technical design, code, and documentation
Contribute to Wynd’s infrastructure which includes mobile, desktop and server-side applications