Bluefish AI
Senior Backend Engineer (Data Platform)
New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 76 days ago
TypeScriptPythonDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLDynamoDBVector DatabasesAWSTerraformKafkaMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceSalesforceCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- You will work closely with data engineers and product teams to level up data pipelines and ensure data acquisition scales with the business.
- This role is based in our NYC office and follows a hybrid working policy with 3 days in office.
Responsibilities
- Design and build production-grade backend services and pipelines that carry data reliably from ingestion to downstream consumers.
- Build resilient infrastructure with smart retries, backoff strategies, dead-letter handling, and failure recovery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate new data sources and serve evolving platform needs.
- Set technical direction and raise the bar on code quality, testing, and system design.
Requirements
- Experience with AWS: SQS/SNS, Kafka, Lambda, ECS, S3, and EventBridge.
- Experience designing systems with robust error handling, idempotency, and reliable delivery guarantees.
- Experience mentoring mid/junior engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.
- 5+ years building and operating production backend or data platform systems.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: event-driven architectures, async processing, message queues.
- SQL and NoSQL database experience (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- Comfortable working across languages
- our stack is Python and TypeScript and you'll be expected to be productive in both.
Nice to have
- Experience with pipeline orchestrations.
- Background in web scraping or data acquisition at scale.
- Familiarity with vector databases or ML-adjacent infrastructure (embeddings, inference endpoints).
- Experience with big data, especially with AI/ML platforms and use-cases.
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform).
- Bluefish believes that AI represents the next major chapter of the internet - and that consumers will increasingly use AI to consume information and media online.
- On this new AI internet, brands will need new tools and technologies to tell their stories to consumers online - and a new marketing ecosystem will be created around AI.
- Tackle challenging and abstract problems while disrupting the $300BN legacy mar-tech industry
Skills
- This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of AI‑driven technologies and make meaningful contributions to real‑world applications.
Company info
- Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup building at the center of AI
- Demonstrated grit and resourcefulness - you find creative solutions, adapt quickly, and aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Thoughtful and strategic thinker with the ability to anticipate needs, ask the right questions, and deliver insights that truly drive value.
- Proven ability to collaborate across functions and roles, fostering open communication and shared ownership of outcomes.
- Commitment to craftsmanship - you take pride in delivering high-quality work, paying attention to the small details while keeping the big picture in mind.
- Self-starter with a proactive mindset and a strong sense of accountability - able to drive projects forward independently while staying aligned with team goals.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning new tools, processes, or technologies to get the job done.
- Design and operate data exchange interfaces for external customers: APIs, exports, and delivery mechanisms that meet reliability, security, and contractual requirements.
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