Backend Engineer

Role overview Build and operate the backend data and platform systems that support internal products and operational workflows. The work spans data pipelines, database reliability, cloud infrastructure, and integrations, with regular collaboration across product and security teams. The role suits an engineer comfortable both developing data flows and troubleshooting deployed systems.

Responsibilities - Develop pipelines that ingest, transform, and deliver data from systems such as CRM platforms, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIs. - Maintain Kubernetes infrastructure and deployment tooling, including secrets management and cluster health. - Work with security partners on incident response, observability, and infrastructure reliability improvements. - Improve PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, query performance, and data integrity. - Support CRM data flows and build integrations between third-party SaaS tools and internal products. - Contribute to CI/CD, testing, code review, documentation, and regular production delivery.

Requirements - Experience building and maintaining ETL or ELT pipelines from ingestion through delivery to downstream users. - Proficiency with PostgreSQL data modeling, schema design, migrations, and query optimization. - Production Kubernetes experience, including workload troubleshooting; familiarity with Helm and kubectl. - Experience with infrastructure as code, such as OpenTofu or Terraform, and strong Python skills for engineering and automation. - Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, RDS, Lambda, or IAM, plus an operational focus on observability and reliability. - Strong debugging, communication, and collaboration skills, including experience working with an agile product team.

Nice to have - Salesforce data and CRM integrations, financial or investment data, and pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow. - JavaScript or TypeScript backend experience, or work in a startup, accelerator, or investment setting.

Benefits and work setup The listed salary range is $115,000–$130,000. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.