Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

Building and improving distributed backend systems for a genomics platform, the full-time Senior Backend Engineer will develop high-performance services, optimize data processing pipelines, and design scalable data structures while working remotely.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-performance and fault-tolerant distributed backend services
• Build and optimize data processing pipelines over large genomic and health datasets using Apache Spark and DuckDB
• Design data structures, storage and indexing strategies across PostgreSQL, Qdrant, and Redis for performance at scale

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems at scale
• Expert-level in TypeScript, comfortable owning production services end to end
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and hands-on with large-scale data processing frameworks
• Deeply familiar with OLTP and OLAP data systems (PostgreSQL, DuckDB)
• Solid with distributed event-driven systems