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).