Staff Backend Engineer – Submission Processing

You’ll be right at home if you:
Have 8+ years of software engineering experience.
Embody hustle and grit, you’re excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
Thrive on experimentation: you’re comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale.
Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
Are excited by problems others are struggling with.
Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data