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Sphere · 4 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Data)

San Francisco, CA, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$180K/yr - $250K/yr

6+ years exp

Sphere is an AI-powered cross-border tax compliance platform that automates sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance for companies worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own billing integrations and architect a uniform data pipeline to manage large volumes of transaction data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)FinanceTax Preparation

Responsibilities

Own all billing integrations across billing providers (Stripe, Chargebee), ERPs (Rillet, Campfire) and our standalone API

Architect plans for a uniform data pipeline that will manage ingestion and storage of >1B records across different billing providers

Define a uniform data model to store all transaction-related data

Work directly with some of the fastest growing companies in the world - including Eleven Labs, Replit, Windsurf on their billing set up

Execute and build out the data pipeline

Build out new integrations that will plug into our standardized data pipeline

Optimize data pipeline / integrations for speed and efficiency (reduce syncing time)

Begin designing the next evolution of the data warehouse for analytics

Qualification

PythonDjangoData Systems ArchitectureData WarehousingData Modeling

Required

Strong experience in Python. Our core application backend and data pipeline services are built with Python and Django

Strong skills in designing, architecting, and building data systems from the ground up

Very strong attention to detail. When you work with numbers this is non-negotiable - it's not enough to be 99% right

You're almost as much a data engineer as you are a software engineer. You've used the tools of the modern data stack but you've also built complex software from the ground up