Backend Engineer

About the Company:
We are forging the engine of an era of limitless, scalable science. Our offerings—like AI-powered peer review, push-button replication, and intentional design checks—compress months of verification into hours while creating frictionless systems for research deployment, validation, and discovery. We’re a small team with mighty ambitions, and we highly value adaptability and exploration. AI-for-Science and Metascience are our core focus. We have a strong preference for the curious, opinionated, and actionable.

What You’ll Do

High-Level
As a Back-end Engineer, you will develop core components of our platform, such as the API and persistence layers. Responsibilities include automating and ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security by implementing and integrating solutions—primarily written in Python—that continue to scale and evolve. We are an Object-Oriented-focused team with strong SOLID and Design Pattern fundamentals, who believe in the design, build, and redesign philosophy so continual innovation is possible.

Low-Level

• Build and maintain API services and application runtimes
• Build and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines
• Communicate and collaborate closely with related teams
• Enhance and extend standard tools for new use cases
• Maintain and resolve product issues as they arise
• Develop or self-start internal frameworks when needed

Must-Have
These are absolute requirements for the position and what we’ll focus on during the interview process.

Technologies

• Programming: Python & SQL
• Familiarity with OOP paradigms
• Cloud Computing (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Strong familiarity with Unit Testing
• Familiarity with API fundamentals
• Familiarity with Database fundamentals
• Git / GitHub

Traits

• Adaptable – capable of working from design to code
• Low Ego – open to asking questions, willing to learn new code abstractions and practices
• High Agency – works autonomously and enjoys exploring ideas
• Self-Directed – can read documentation and implement ideas with moderate guidance

Nice-to-Have
These aren’t requirements but will be a plus.

Technologies

• Experience with DevOps tooling

Traits

• Ability to push back in technical discussions
• Familiarity with DevOps-focused environments
• Experience with Agile (with a healthy distaste for the bad parts).

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Remote