Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The role

A Senior Engineer will join the Foundations team to build reliable, scalable, and fast distributed and data-intensive systems. You will take end-to-end ownership of database and processing systems projects.

What you will do

• Take end-to-end ownership of significant projects within database and processing systems
• Build robust distributed systems
• Contribute to performant protocols and APIs
• Tackle complex domains and immense scale with simple solutions
• Raise the bar through code reviews, pairing, and helping engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale backend infrastructure applications
• Deep fluency in at least one high-level language
• Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts (databases, replication, partitioning, queuing, caching)
• Experience owning services in production and improving quality through code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring

Nice to have

• Experience with data migrations or re-architecture projects

Benefits

• Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity
• Clear, accelerated growth opportunities
• Daily team lunches & dinners
• Annual learning & development budget
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
• UK employees: 25 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
• Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
• Bi-annual company offsites & monthly socials

About the company

Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ leading AI teams. The company has raised $110M from technology investors.