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Jellyfish · 3 weeks ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Systems

USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$165K/yr - $235K/yr

10+ years exp

Jellyfish is a company focused on improving engineering team effectiveness through AI-integrated solutions. They are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, AI Systems to build tools for classifying work, processing complex data at scale, and enhancing productivity across various issue tracking systems.

Marketing & Advertising

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, plan, and implement key features as part of a highly effective development team

Rapidly deliver value for our customers by pushing features to our AWS-hosted SaaS environment daily, with automated CI/CD pipelines

Provide technical and product expertise within your team and across the organization

Think big about what’s possible to represent the scope of engineering work and how it’s changing

Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues

Participate in your team’s agile process and work to continually improve your team’s capabilities

Provide support for production operations of the Jellyfish product

Actively participate in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on your team

Qualification

PythonData modelingLarge Language ModelsAWSFrontend frameworksCuriosityCommunication skillsTeam player

Required

10+ years of experience building SaaS products

Strong skills in Python, and passion for building production software systems

Enough experience with frontend frameworks, such as React, to be able to pitch in from time to time to move a project forward or troubleshoot issues

Strong skills in data modeling in relational database systems and experience with and interest in other database technologies such as columnar systems

Experience working with Large Language Models and Amazon's Bedrock and Sagemaker environments

Fluency with tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro and a track record of using them to build and ship fast

Have worked in or interested in a growth-stage startup

Curiosity - great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing

Love learning new things and teaching others what you know

Strong communication skills and desire for collaborative work

Authorized to work for any employer in the US