Backend Engineer - Index Data Processing

Job description

Responsibilities

- Working with product managers, researchers, and other engineers to define cloud-native backend systems and project requirements.

- Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services with a strong focus on cloud architecture.

- Writing clean, well-tested, and production-ready Python code (with opportunities to use Go or Rust where appropriate).

- Deploying and operating production systems on AWS with an emphasis on reliability, security, and performance.

- Using Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage cloud resources.

Requirements

- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Independent and self-driven learner with a strong interest in containerised backend engineering.

- Strong Python experience

- Experience with Cloud-Native system design and hosting

- Experience with debugging via observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Loki.

Desirables

- Experience or interest in Go and/or Rust.

- Experience with graph databases or knowledge graphs (e.g. Neptune, Neo4j, or graph modelling on Postgres).