Hebbia
Backend Engineer, Growth and Data
$160K–$350K
NYC +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2025
- Location
- NYC
San Francisco - Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for Hebbia’s Growth and Data platform, including scalable document indexing and customer-facing integrations.
What you'll do
- Own critical backend components and turn complex requirements into scaled solutions.
- Build and improve the document indexing system, optimizing latency and throughput across millions of documents.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, focused on backend engineering.
- Proficiency building backend and API systems with Python, Java, or Go.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Working experience with one or more of Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field; strong coursework in data structures, algorithms, and software development is preferred.
- Experience building agentic systems or LLM enabled products; frequent use of AI products such as Cursor or Claude Code.
Pay
$160,000 to $350,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java, Go, AWS, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis
AI focus
Build data systems that power AI-driven indexing, retrieval, and agentic research; experience with agentic systems or LLM enabled products is a bonus.
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