Backend Engineer - Index Data Processing

Responsibilities Working with product managers, researchers, and other engineers to define cloud-native backend systems and project requirements.

Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services with a strong focus on cloud architecture.

Writing clean, well-tested, and production-ready Python code (with opportunities to use Go or Rust where appropriate).

Deploying and operating production systems on AWS with an emphasis on reliability, security, and performance.

Using Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage cloud resources.

Requirements Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Independent and self-driven learner with a strong interest in containerised backend engineering.

Strong Python experience

Experience with Cloud-Native system design and hosting

Experience with debugging via observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Loki.

Desirables Experience or interest in Go and/or Rust.

Experience with graph databases or knowledge graphs (e.g. Neptune, Neo4j, or graph modelling on Postgres).