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Technical Lead, Staff Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
156 days ago
Salary
$225K - $245K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Lead, Staff Backend Engineer
Machinify
• Lead end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale data mining solutions that handle real-time data as well as batch mode ingestion, modeling, and inference • Shape long-term architectural direction, technology stack, and engineering best practices • Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability across the platform • Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering strong engineering culture and technical excellence • Partner with peers in product management, operations and data science to translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable technical plans • Enjoy designing and architecting complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes • Recognize and prioritize between Customer deliverables & Tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building complex distributed systems or large-scale backend platforms
- Ability to gain trust and influence to adopt a specific technical direction or architectural change without having direct managerial authority across stakeholders
- Strong working experience with Scala or Java (additional experience with python, Rust, or C# are a plus)
- Deep expertise with data-intensive systems or real-time processing pipelines.
- Proven ability to drive high-impact, green field and/or ambiguous projects
- Experience reading and understanding complex enterprise-grade code, quickly contributing to it, and suggesting improvements.
- Working experience writing SQL queries
- Strong CS foundation (data structures, asynchronous programming)
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
Benefits
- Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
- Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
- FSA/HSA
- Tuition reimbursement
- Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
- Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work
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