• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical documentation that guides development and testing. • Understand the purpose of new features and help communicate that purpose to team members. • Create design specifications, test plans, and unit tests for individual work scope. • Preemptively scan backlogs to surface important issues, apply relevant labels for triaging and tracking, and assist in prioritizing work. • Understand work processes and their interdependencies to ensure seamless integration. • Build new features or enhance existing ones based on defined specifications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security. • Evaluate existing software systems to identify areas for improvement, optimization, or refactoring. • Use profiling tools to identify and optimize inefficient code paths, memory usage, and system responsiveness. • Design and implement software systems in accordance with software development standards. • Write clean, legible, efficient, and well-documented code. • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of assigned tasks, contributing to overall project success and team velocity. • Participate in software testing to identify, document, and resolve bugs and other issues. • Participate in code reviews and other quality assurance activities to ensure software systems are robust and performant. • Debug and troubleshoot complex software issues and provide timely solutions. • Ensure adherence to software development best practices and processes. • Perform ongoing maintenance to ensure software stability, reliability, and alignment with evolving business needs. • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation to support development, testing, and long-term maintenance. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. • Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of requirements and implementation goals. • Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders. • Manage projects and initiatives with moderate complexity. • Mentor junior team members and provide guidance. • Help to support the work of their peers by pair programming, reviewing code, and through mentorship. • Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making. • Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent by conducting interviews, serving as an onboarding mentor and support/mentor new hires. • Continuously improve technical skills and stay up to date with emerging technologies.

• Requirement Analysis • Translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical documentation that guides development and testing. • Understand the purpose of new features and help communicate that purpose to team members. • Create design specifications, test plans, and unit tests for individual work scope. • Preemptively scan backlogs to surface important issues, apply relevant labels for triaging and tracking, and assist in prioritizing work. • Understand work processes and their interdependencies to ensure seamless integration. • Development & Coding • Build new features or enhance existing ones based on defined specifications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security. • Evaluate existing software systems to identify areas for improvement, optimization, or refactoring. • Use profiling tools to identify and optimize inefficient code paths, memory usage, and system responsiveness. • Design and implement software systems in accordance with software development standards • Write clean, legible, efficient, and well-documented code. • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of assigned tasks, contributing to overall project success and team velocity. • Testing & Quality Assurance • Participate in software testing to identify, document, and resolve bugs and other issues. • Participate in code reviews and other quality assurance activities to ensure software systems are robust and performant. • Debug and troubleshoot complex software issues and provide timely solutions. • Ensure adherence to software development best practices and processes. • Deployment & Maintenance • Perform ongoing maintenance to ensure software stability, reliability, and alignment with evolving business needs. • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation to support development, testing, and long-term maintenance. • Collaboration & Communication • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. • Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of requirements and implementation goals. • Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders. • Leadership & Mentorship • Manage projects and initiatives with moderate complexity. • Mentor junior team members and provide guidance. • Help to support the work of their peers by pair programming, reviewing code, and through mentorship. • Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making. • Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent by conducting interviews, serving as an onboarding mentor and support/mentor new hires. • Professional Development • Continuously improve technical skills and stay up to date with emerging technologies.

• Make architectural decisions for product backend • Implement design, develop backend and write tests • Monitor trouble proof operation of production • Monitor performance, and optimize wherever necessary • Responsible for completed tasks

Title: Senior Backend Engineer Start Date: ASAP Location: Primarily remote (optional hybrid in NYC or Chicago) COMPANY OVERVIEW Areté Capital Partners is a boutique, special-situation advisory firm that provides independent fiduciary and stewardship services to companies experiencing significant growth pains, complex organizational change, or existential crisis. Our scope of work includes serving as Board Members, Interim C-Suite Management, Chief Restructuring Officer, and other operationally focused roles, where AI-driven tools and analytics play a pivotal role in optimizing turnarounds and mitigating risks. The Areté team combines decades of professional experience across a multitude of sectors and situations, advising businesses during periods of distress and transition. OPPORTUNITY As an early member of Areté’s newly formed Data & AI team, you will work closely with the Team Lead to build the function from the ground up and scale our client project delivery. Our Data and AI strategy has three pillars: People (internal transformation), Projects (client solution delivery), and Product (SaaS development). You'll primarily focus on the Projects pillar—leading client engagements that solve real business problems through data science and AI—while contributing to our product roadmap by abstracting reusable components from client work. You'll work on high-impact projects across the portfolio of Areté clients. Some projects include SKU rationalization, inventory optimization for retail and CPG clients, and price optimization for entertainment industry leaders. This remote-first role offers significant autonomy, direct client interaction, and the chance to shape both our technical direction and team culture as we grow. RESPONSIBILITIES The Senior Backend Engineer (Data/AI) plays a vital role in delivering transformative data and AI solutions to our clients. Your involvement in initiatives will include, but are not limited to: Client Project Delivery (70%) Lead client projects from discovery through production deployment, owning the full technical lifecycle Interface directly with clients to understand business challenges and translate them into technical solutions Work directly with Areté’s consultants to bring technology to automate and optimize their process and work together to deliver client outcomes Design and build production-ready data science and AI solutions using Python, modern ML frameworks, and agentic AI (Pydantic AI) Travel to client sites (up to 40%) for onboarding, discovery workshops, and strategic engagements Ensure solutions deliver measurable business value and meet success criteria established during discovery Product Development & Technical Assets (20%) Abstract reusable components and patterns from client work into our SaaS product platform Build and maintain scalable, modular codebases that can be deployed across multiple clients Develop data pipelines, ML models, and AI agents that become core product features Establish technical standards, best practices, and documentation for the growing team Contribute to architecture decisions and technical strategy for the Data & AI business unit Team Development & Collaboration (10%) Work closely with the Data Team Lead in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment Eventually mentor and manage junior engineers as the team scales Participate in technical decision-making and help shape the team's culture and processes Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and technical documentation EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS