This company operates as a consumer insights firm powered by AI, unraveling the data behind trends. Our compact yet agile team tracks and forecasts millions micro-trends, alerting clients proactively before they surge.

We seek a Lead Backend Engineer who can spearhead backend infrastructure development and deployment, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Integral to our Data Science, NLP, Data Engineering, and Product teams, you'll craft top-tier solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

· Guide and supervise a compact team of Backend and Frontend Engineers

· Forge and maintain a scalable backend architecture

· Architect and deploy API endpoints

· Collaborate closely with Data Science, Data Engineering, and Product Teams

· Establish and uphold automated unit testing

Required Skills and Qualifications:

· Over 5 years' experience in backend development.

· Delivering robust, scalable systems and cloud based applications in Python.

· Proven leadership in guiding engineering teams

· Competence with SQL and NoSQL databases

Bonus Points:

· Exposure to Big Data environments.

· Proficiency with DevOps tools.

· Previous engagement with startup ventures.

· ML/AI, NLP, and Data Science principles.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $130,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Flextime
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays
• Work from home

Compensation package:

• Bonus opportunities
• Yearly pay

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Python: 5 years (Required)
• Leadership: 3 years (Required)
• large-scale distributed systems: 3 years (Required)
• ML/AI , and NLP: 2 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• New York, NY 10036 (Required)

Work Location: In person