Alexander Babbage, Inc. has built a decision intelligence platform that connects physical world behaviors to business outcomes. They are seeking a Senior Backend & Data Platform Engineer to evolve the TruTrade platform by improving backend systems, data architecture, and analytics capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Evolve backend systems and data architecture
- Improve data pipelines across complex, multi-source datasets
- Strengthen performance, reliability, and scalability
- Help extend the platform toward more advanced analytics and AI-driven capabilities
- Designing and optimizing PostgreSQL data models and queries
- Building and improving multi-source data pipelines (Databricks, SQL, Python)
- Managing AWS infrastructure (RDS, S3, IAM)
- Solving data integrity challenges across disparate datasets
- Improving observability, monitoring, and system performance
- Structuring data to support future AI and model-driven applications
Requirements:
- 5+ years in backend or data platform engineering
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL expertise
- Experience with AWS (RDS, S3, IAM)
- Experience supporting data-driven applications or platforms
- Strong problem-solving and systems thinking
- Ability to operate independently in a remote environment
- Python / ETL experience
- Databricks or similar environments
- Experience with complex, multi-source datasets
- Exposure to AI-assisted development or data applications
- Experience with GIS or location-specific datasets