Software Engineer, Backend (Senior Level)

Posted 22 Days Ago
2 Locations
5-7 Years Experience
Software
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Instabase, you will design and develop scalable backend platforms for user applications, handle real-time data processing, collaborate with frontend engineers to create APIs, mentor junior engineers, and troubleshoot production issues.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Instabase, we're passionate about democratizing access to cutting-edge AI innovation to enable any organization to solve previously unsolvable unstructured data problems in their industry.  With customers representing some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world, and investors like Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz, and Index Ventures, our market opportunity is near infinite.

Instabase offers a consumption-based pricing model where customers can pay only for what they use, aligning directly with the value our products deliver. It empowers our clients to explore our AI Hub platform features extensively, enabling them to uncover crucial business insights. This customer-centric model allows Instabase to glean insights from diverse use cases and behaviors, ensuring we deliver top-tier solutions that provide unmatched advantages for everyday business operations.

With offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Bengaluru, Instabase is a truly global company. We are people-first, and we've built a fearlessly experimental, endlessly curious, customer obsessed team who work together and help organizations around the world turn their unstructured data into insights instantly.

This is a hybrid role to be based in either our San Francisco or New York office.

Our Engineering Team architects the underlying operating system, core services, platform infrastructure, dev toolkits, core algorithms, machine learning models, packaged end-user apps, and app store marketplace. Instabase engineers are excited to solve hard problems for complex organizations and are self-starters from day one.

At Instabase, we develop intuitive products that enable large enterprises to tackle their unstructured data problems. As a senior product backend engineer, you will design and develop the scalable backend platforms that power our interactive user applications. Advances in generative AI are creating new ways for humans to interact with data, and here at Instabase, we are working to build intuitive product experiences around these advances.

What you'll do:

  • Design and build robust, scalable backends that serve document and other data to the product frontend.
  • Dive into the complexities of real-time data processing and develop strategies to ensure that our systems can efficiently handle the dynamic outputs of generative AI models.
  • Collaborate with frontend engineers to design the optimal APIs to deliver fast data interactions to end users.
  • Work with product managers and designers to understand user pain points and create the best product experience.
  • Be the tech lead for your projects, plan project execution and timeline, and delegate work to junior engineers.
  • Interface with other engineering teams to ensure the features you own are integrated with downstream and upstream systems.
  • Mentor junior engineers on engineering best practices and technical design.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to improving our platform stability.

About you:

  • You have 5+ years of industry experience as a backend software engineer
  • You are passionate about software engineering design, with an interest in the latest developments in AI/ML.
  • You want to build user-facing product, and care deeply about user enablement.
  • You itch to ship features quickly into the hands of users and hear their feedback.
  • You love thinking about how your component fits into the broader system and can design with complex frameworks in mind

The base salary for this role is $190,000 to $205,000 + target bonus, equity and US benefits. The actual pay may vary based on factors such as location, experience and skills.

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Instabase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting about 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.

Top Skills

Java
Python
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
300 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

The Automation Platform for Unstructured Data

Instabase is democratizing access to deep learning to empower any organization to solve unstructured data problems with unprecedented accuracy. From understanding complex financial data for the world’s largest banks to transforming manual processes for insurers and federal agencies alike, automating unstructured data represents the largest opportunity for digital transformation in the enterprise.

With Instabase, our customers can automatically understand unstructured data with the latest deep learning technologies, rapidly build end-to-end workflows with pre-packaged solution blocks, and innovate at scale across their organization.

Why Work With Us

We are a remote first company where our people are at the core of our success. Our key priorities are employee wellbeing through comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We are constantly working to make sure that employees feel supported and empowered.

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