Enigma
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Match Team
New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$295kDetected 8 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsElasticsearchAWSCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformData Engineering
About the role
- This is a critical and exciting time at Enigma.
- As demand grows, we have an urgent opportunity to improve both the intelligence of our data and the systems through which customers access it.
- We are looking for an experienced Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join our Match Team and help shape the next generation of Enigma's customer-facing data products.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments
- Design and build low-latency, high-throughput search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems using Python, Typesense, and AWS
- Evaluate and evolve our search technology stack, driving technical design decisions across retrieval architecture, indexing strategies, and system performance tradeoffs
- Lead end-to-end work from design and implementation through productionization and customer-facing delivery
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to improve search experience and discoverability
- Mentor teammates and help raise the bar for system design and operational excellence
- Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems
Requirements
- You will play a central role in architecting, building, and managing the critical engineering systems required to power fast, relevant, and reliable search and retrieval experiences at scale.
- Has strong programming proficiency in Python and experience operating within cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Have deep experience with our core stack (Typesense, Python, AWS) or similar retrieval infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS)
Compensation
- $180,000-$295,000
- A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry.
- Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities.
- All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we're creating together.
Company info
- At Enigma, we're building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services.
- By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive.
- Our core values - generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive - guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis.
- We're a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data-together.
- If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- Your technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies.
- Our customers consistently tell us that our data products create tremendous value and are deeply aligned with their most important workflows.
- Impact: Your technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies.
- Customer Proximity: Your work will directly influence how sophisticated customers integrate Enigma data into critical workflows and decision-making systems.
- Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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