• Architect and scale Groundhawk’s backend platform, building the services and data pipelines that connect field data capture with customer workflows while handling geospatial data at scale • Design and build backend services using Python and Node.js, evolving our API architecture • Build and operate data pipelines that ingest, process, and serve geospatial data at scale • Own and improve our microservices architecture, ensuring reliability and performance • Collaborate with ML engineers on processing pipelines for 3D point clouds and sensor data • Optimize database performance and query patterns across PostgreSQL / PostGIS • Drive infrastructure improvements on AWS, including observability, CI/ CD and scaling

• You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. • This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. • Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products. • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides • Provide feedback on code reviews • Contribute to the shared codebase • Debug and solve technical and business issues • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides • Provide feedback on code reviews • Contribute to the shared codebase • Debug and solve technical and business issues • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Role Description We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and maintain the internal platform and tooling, supporting business scalability and engineering velocity needs. Reporting to the Platform Team Lead, this role will involve a healthy mix of foundational backend work and DevOps, making it ideal for someone who likes variety in the projects they work on. The role assumes active collaboration with our iOS, Computer Vision, Visualization & Tooling, Web, Infrastructure, and Data engineers, as well as other functions within the company. - Join our team in building the foundation that powers our business and operations. - Build the platform and tools that directly help thousands of architecture, design, and renovation companies save time and grow their businesses through 3D capture, and that help our team serve them better. - Ensure the scalability and reliability of a distributed processing backend that processes a high volume of 3D scans per day. - Develop tools that empower our internal operations team to efficiently manage scan data. - Help other engineering teams unlock higher development velocity by adopting modern DevOps practices, tools, and technologies. - Own your projects and use this autonomy to find creative, innovative ways to solve problems and deliver solutions. Qualifications - It's a joy to communicate with you in both written and spoken English. - You have a strong background in Python, Django, and Django Rest Framework (or similar). - You have experience with databases like PostgreSQL and Redis. - The test pyramid has no secrets for you, and you stress over the testability of the code you write. - You've built or maintained APIs, using monoliths or micro-services. - Major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc., are very familiar to you. - You've worked in teams using Agile development practices, or others like ShapeUp, etc. - You're comfortable working with infrastructure and are capable of handling DevOps tasks when necessary. Requirements - You've had experience in writing technical documents and gathering requirements. - You’re used to setting up or managing CI / CD pipelines with GitHub, GitLab, etc. - You’ve worked on services that used Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies for asynchronous communication. - You've had frontend experience in JavaScript, Typescript, jQuery, or any modern JavaScript framework.