[Remote] Senior Backend Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who's passionate about building robust data pipelines and integrating with third-party APIs. The role involves developing data infrastructure and providing technical expertise within the team.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for storage, transformation and export
• Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, incident management tools, AI coding assistants, etc.)
• Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing
• Design and implement data export pipelines
• Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development
• Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
• Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues

Skills

• You know how to build and scale data pipelines
• You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
• You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
• You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
• You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
• You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution
• You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others
• You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team
• Located in EST or CST time zone
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US
• You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
• You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
• You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
• You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
• You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

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