Machinify focuses on providing machine learning solutions to businesses and was created to help companies integrate artificial intelligence into everyday practi
Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Web Apps
Location
United States
Posted
107 days ago
Salary
$200K - $245K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Web Apps
Machinify
• Contribute to backend server-side development to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure • Recognize and prioritize between Customer deliverables & Tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products. • Enjoy designing and architecting complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes • Deliver resilient enterprise software solutions
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of backend focused experience in the field of application programming and complex API development
- Strong working experience with Java or Scala
- Proven experience developing thoughtful backend system design and architecture with scalability in mind
- Additional Rust experience highly desired across greenfield 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)
- Excellences in test writing discipline
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity
- 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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