Condor · 4 hours ago
Senior Backend and Data Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCondor is a company focused on providing financial intelligence for life sciences. They are seeking a Senior Backend and Data Platform Engineer to architect and build data foundations that support financial and clinical trial data analytics, while collaborating with an engineering team to design and maintain data pipelines and APIs.
Enterprise SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyLife Science
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and transform financial and clinical trial data from multiple internal and external sources, with a focus on making data suitable for analytics, reporting, and LLM-based AI agents
Develop backend services and data access layers that expose high-quality financial data to internal systems and customer-facing features, ensuring data is structured for direct consumption by LLMs and automated workflows
Implement and operate embedding pipelines and vectorized representations of structured and semi-structured data to support semantic search, RAG, and agentic workflows
Optimize database performance, query execution, and batch processing jobs to support large-scale financial datasets and AI-driven access patterns
Participate in architectural decisions around data infrastructure, storage strategies, and integration with LLMs, embeddings, and vector databases
Work closely with product managers and analysts to translate business requirements into durable datasets, metrics, and APIs
Contribute to frontend implementations to ensure data-heavy and AI-enabled features are presented clearly and correctly
Mentor other engineers on data modeling best practices, SQL performance optimization, ETL design patterns, and building reliable, observable data systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and data engineering
Deep expertise in SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar), including complex analytical queries and performance tuning
Experience building and operating ETL or ELT pipelines using orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or AWS Step Functions)
Production experience building AI-powered data systems, including vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), embedding pipelines, and designing data access patterns for RAG and agentic workflows
A pragmatic approach to the full stack, including a willingness to contribute to React codebases to ensure data-heavy features are delivered end-to-end
Familiarity with data quality validation, testing, and monitoring practices in production systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Strong proficiency in Python, with experience using web frameworks (Django, DRF)
Experience working with modern data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
Experience integrating backend systems or data pipelines with LLM APIs for enrichment, summarization, or analysis
Experience with data transformation and validation tools (dbt, Great Expectations)
Experience building production AI features end-to-end, including LLM integration, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and observability/evaluation frameworks
Experience working in a Series A-C startup with rapid scale
Benefits
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
Comprehensive employee benefits, including 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance
401(k) plan with a 3% company match that vests immediately
Unlimited PTO
Company
Condor
Condor powers smarter financial decisions in clinical development by combining financial intelligence, automation, and deep industry expertise.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$5.5MKey Investors
MassChallenge
2024-03-03Undisclosed
2022-02-22Seed· $5.5M
2021-07-07Non Equity Assistance
Leadership Team
Jennifer Kyle, CPA
CEO and Founder
John Yang-Sammataro
Co-Founder
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