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Software Engineer, Backend
$189K–$256K
New York · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years or 5+ years in backend software development.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.
About the job
Builds and operates backend services, APIs, and data flows that power reliable creator insights and analytics.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for creator insights at scale.
- Build and maintain data pipelines, jobs, and models; improve data quality, monitoring, and performance.
- Collaborate across product, design, data, and engineering; drive technical design, write maintainable code, and mentor teammates.
What they ask for
- 3+ years or 5+ years of backend software development experience building production services and APIs.
- Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language, plus SQL and relational data modeling experience.
- Hands-on experience with data-intensive work such as pipelines, scheduled jobs, event logging, or analytical data serving.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience with data quality, lineage, or observability tooling; customer-facing analytics or insights features.
- Familiarity with metric design, analytics experimentation, Elastic Search, or OLAP.
Pay
$189K – $255.5K (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Airflow, Spark, Kafka / Kinesis, dbt
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