Pendulum · 5 days ago
Senior Backend Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $240K/yrPendulum offers unmatched social data coverage, ensuring companies never miss conversations they care about across various content types. The Senior Backend Data Engineer will help drive efforts to extend the data ingestion and processing pipeline, leveraging cloud technologies and AI/ML models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information Technology
Responsibilities
Build our enterprise grade APIs: Our platform encompasses a broad spectrum of use-cases across a variety of domains. We need you to help build the APIs, backend services and data stores to empower our customers
Ship commercial solutions: Our users have a huge job to do, at a massive scale. So, we need to build tremendous, powerful software that just works
ML and big data in real life: Data and ML are at the core of what we do, and we are operationalizing them so that risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams at large companies and organizations can unlock their power. Doing so requires versatile, yet opinionated products - which require versatile, but opinionated engineers
Collaborate closely with product and sales teams to translate complex business needs into intuitive, performant tools
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small but growing engineering team, setting coding standards, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
Qualification
Required
Strong Industry Experience: Shown a steady upward career progression in the art of Software Engineering
Complex Architectures: Design, implement, and maintain platforms, engines, or frameworks that others consume. Deliver APIs consumed by modern web applications with an understanding of the complexities and nuances of microservices and databases
Distributed compute & big data: You've worked with distributed compute, and have tackled the performance challenges of large scale data. You've used serverless AWS components as building blocks like API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, and DynamoDB
Modern Backend Expertise: Build backend services and systems with languages like Python, Rust, or Go, and understand the complexities and nuances of CRUD, Graph API, and microservices
CS Fundamentals: Earned at least a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
Collaborate closely with product and sales teams to translate complex business needs into intuitive, performant tools
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small but growing engineering team, setting coding standards, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation
Benefits
100% employer-paid employee health premiums (50% for dependents)
401(k)
FSA
Unlimited PTO
Company (and two personal-choice) holidays
Company
Pendulum
Pendulum helps organizations protect and grow their reputation by providing insights to conversations happening on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, BitChute, Snapchat and 20 other platforms.
Founded in 2021
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$5.9MKey Investors
Madrona
2022-01-07Seed· $5.9M
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