Job Title : Backend Engineer
Location: Durham, NC 12460-0070
DURATION: Through June 2nd, 2025 (potential for extension)
100% Remote or Hybrid - Boston
(flexible depending on location of the candidate)
Key Responsibilities:
- Back-end development for a Python web application
- Integration of AI/ML components with frontend, data and compute infrastructure
- Scale up of web application using cloud infrastructure
- Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
- Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
- Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
- Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (including computational, numerate or life sciences), or equivalent experience
- Cloud experience (e.g. Google Cloud and Cloud Run preferred) including core web application infrastructure
- Intermediate to advanced skills in Python
- Unit testing experience (e.g. pytest)
- Knowledge of agile practices and able to perform in agile software development environments
- Strong knowledge of modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, DevOps tools for deployment) - should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often
Preferred qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience of Python backend development (e.g. using FastAPI)
- Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and deployment of AI/ML powered applications
- Experience with Docker or containerized applications, especially architecture of multi-container applications
Experience with Kubernetes or job scheduling systems would be a significant advantage