Senior Software Engineer

MARA is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the backend systems that power Vertebr.ai, a core platform supporting MARA’s mining operations, energy management systems, and operational intelligence capabilities. In this role, you will work closely with the Lead Software Engineer and cross-functional partners to design, implement, and operate reliable backend services, APIs, data integrations, and automation workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, integrations, and automation workflows for Vertebr.ai
• Develop scalable and reliable software that supports mining operations, energy systems, operational intelligence, and internal platform capabilities
• Translate technical problem statements into clear implementation tasks, estimates, and deliverables
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code in production systems
• Contribute to backend architecture decisions, service boundaries, API design, data contracts, and integration patterns
• Build systems that are secure, observable, performant, and maintainable across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
• Own backend features and services from design through implementation, release, monitoring, and production support
• Work independently on complex engineering problems while seeking feedback on key design and tradeoff decisions
• Partner with the Lead Software Engineer to execute the Vertebr.ai technical roadmap and deliver high-impact backend capabilities
• Break down ambiguous or complex work into manageable tasks and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly
• Participate in technical planning, estimation, system design discussions, and implementation reviews
• Make sound engineering tradeoffs across reliability, speed, cost, complexity, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of backend production systems
• Develop automated tests, validation tools, and operational checks to improve system quality and release confidence
• Improve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and actionable runbooks
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational overhead through automation, better tooling, and simpler system design
• Contribute to deployment, CI/CD, incident response, and operational readiness practices
• Collaborate with product, frontend, data, platform, SCADA, operations, and leadership stakeholders to deliver integrated software solutions
• Work with data and platform engineers to integrate backend services with telemetry pipelines, data stores, infrastructure, and deployment environments
• Communicate technical concepts, design choices, risks, and implementation details clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and team planning sessions
• Help ensure backend systems align with MARA’s operational needs and broader engineering standards
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical feedback, and practical design guidance
• Share backend development best practices related to testing, maintainability, security, observability, and production ownership
• Help raise the quality bar for engineering execution, documentation, and operational discipline
• Stay current with relevant backend technologies, frameworks, infrastructure patterns, and engineering practices
• Recommend improvements to tools, libraries, workflows, and development practices when they improve team effectiveness

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant backend or distributed systems experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production backend services, APIs, and integrations
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, data modeling, service-to-service integrations, and distributed system fundamentals
• Experience working in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, containerization, and production support practices
• Ability to independently decompose complex technical problems and deliver high-quality solutions with limited guidance
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills across application and infrastructure layers
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly
• Experience participating in design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring less-experienced engineers
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical and operational teams
• Knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrency mining, energy systems, industrial telemetry, SCADA, or infrastructure operations is a plus but not required
• Experience building backend systems for operational intelligence, monitoring, automation, infrastructure management, or internal platforms
• Experience with high-volume telemetry, time-series data, event-driven architectures, streaming systems, or real-time operational workflows
• Experience integrating backend systems with data pipelines, analytics platforms, industrial systems, or edge infrastructure
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, message queues, caching layers, and modern deployment practices
• Experience improving production reliability through observability, testing, automation, and incident remediation
• Experience working on systems that support mining operations, energy markets, data centers, industrial controls, or large-scale infrastructure