Syndesus

Syndesus

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$240kDetected 56 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLNoSQLKubernetesMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringRAGAgentic AIForecastingSupply ChainLogisticsResearch

About the role

  • This is our client's highest-priority hire.
  • A staff backend engineer is currently working across large portions of the platform, and the goal is to add additional senior backend capacity.
  • Architecture and scale - ensuring the platform can sustain significantly higher usage as enterprise onboarding ramps up.

Responsibilities

  • This is a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) role - a hands-on senior IC who can own systems end-to-end.

Nice to have

  • Openings Up to 2 - likely 1 senior plus 1 mid-to-senior.

Skills

  • research and data today are stuck in an outdated state - very little of it is connected, and enormous value is lost in that dark data.
  • The platform is driving 8-figure gross-margin improvements for Fortune 500 retailers.
  • starting in insights and research, then expanding into innovation, marketing, and eventually supply chain and manufacturing.
  • The company is launching publicly after nearly two years in stealth.
  • Zero attrition to date - no one has left.

Compensation

  • $160k-$240k

Benefits

  • Compensation $160,000 - $240,000 base + equity (~25% of salary per year, vesting) + bonus.
  • Benefits / Other ⦁ Health, dental, vision, and 401(k). ⦁ Home office stipend and flexible PTO. ⦁ Ground-floor equity at a well-funded seed-stage company. ⦁
  • Logistics Location New York City - 4 days/week in office, with engineering typically taking Fridays flexible/remote.

Company info

  • About Our Client Our client is an applied AI and data analytics company building the intelligence layer for enterprise decision-making.
  • Their platform unifies an organization's full data landscape - internal systems, social media signals, industry reports, and consumer behavior data - into a single coherent intelligence layer that surfaces insights and automates workflows that previously took analysts weeks to complete.
  • weekly team activities (ping pong tournaments, Yankees games, happy hours, game nights), with plus-ones welcome at events.
  • This is a ground-floor opportunity - engineers joining at this stage will have outsized influence on architecture, product direction, and culture.
  • About the Role This is our client's highest-priority hire.
  • weekly activities, team events, and zero attrition to date.
  • Interview Process 1.
  • Recruiter screen.
  • Intro call with the team (culture and background fit).
  • Technical screen (45-60 min) with a senior engineer - architecturally focused, probing into background.
  • Not a pure coding interview, but designed to evaluate whether the candidate can speak credibly to items on their resume and reason architecturally. (The team is considering adding more hands-on coding probes to this stage based on recent candidate quality.) 4.
  • On-site (4 hours) - Coding interview, system design interview, product sense (30 min), AI sense (30 min), and a meeting with the co-founder and another leader.
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