7Seventy RecruitingRemote
Data Engineer - $72.10 - $115.35 per hour
United States
Full-time
6 days ago
$72 - $10 USD
H1B Sponsor
Key skills
AWS servicesDistributed systemsLarge-scale data processingMicroservices architectureBackend services in PythonTechnical leadershipCollaborationMentorshipPythonGoRustMLAWSServerlessEC2LambdaS3DynamoDBAPI GatewayCognitoLeadershipSales
About this role
7Seventy Recruiting is seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer to help extend and scale a web-scale data ingestion and processing platform. This role involves backend engineering, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and cloud-native architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Extend and optimize large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines
- Design and build enterprise-grade APIs, backend services, and data stores that power customer-facing products
- Deliver production-ready commercial software capable of operating at massive scale
- Operationalize ML and big data systems to support risk intelligence, communications, and marketing teams
- Design, implement, and maintain distributed systems, platforms, and reusable frameworks
- Leverage serverless AWS components such as API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, and DynamoDB
- Architect scalable microservices and data systems with a focus on performance and resilience
- Translate complex business requirements into intuitive, high-performing technical solutions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting engineering standards and guiding architectural decisions
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, sales, and engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
Requirements:
- Demonstrated upward career progression in software engineering
- Experience designing and maintaining complex architectures, platforms, or distributed systems
- Strong background in distributed computing and large-scale data processing
- Hands-on experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, and related tooling
- Proficiency building backend services in Python, Rust, or Go
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, CRUD systems, Graph APIs, and database design
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions
- Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives in a growing team environment