Backend Engineer (Data Focused)

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About Us

We're building powerful, data-driven systems to transform how insurance and lead-matching platforms operate.

We're looking for a Backend Engineer who thrives in building scalable infrastructure, working with large datasets, and designing efficient, production-grade APIs and services. If you're passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization, and working at the intersection of backend and data engineering, we’d love to hear from you.

Role Overview

As a Backend Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our core infrastructure — developing high-performance services, real-time processing pipelines, and scalable APIs. You’ll work closely with data and infrastructure teams to support critical business workflows like policy renewal scoring, lead ingestion, and real-time matching. This role focuses heavily on backend systems and data engineering — experience with ML model integration is a bonus, but not required.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, high-performance services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript (Fastify, Zod).
• Develop real-time data ingestion and lead-matching pipelines with robust validation and error handling.
• Optimize PostgreSQL databases for indexing, performance tuning, and handling large-scale data workloads.
• Leverage Redis for efficient caching and pub / sub communication patterns.
• Write type-safe SQL queries using tools like Kysely or equivalent ORMs / query builders.
• Implement efficient containerized deployments using Docker and deployment best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on CI / CD workflows and automated testing pipelines.
• Use Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and environment provisioning.
• Monitor and fine-tune application performance (memory, CPU, I / O) for data-heavy workloads.
• Integrate pre-trained machine learning models into backend services where relevant.
• Work alongside data scientists on A / B testing frameworks and evaluation pipelines.
• Implement metrics tracking and logging for data and model observability.

Technical Requirements

Backend Development

Database & Systems

Infrastructure & DevOps

Bonus Skills

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Benefits

Ready to build the backend of the future? Apply now and join us in shaping data-first engineering solutions.

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