Backend Engineer - Extensions

The role

You will develop and productize data science capabilities to enhance product performance on enterprise use cases. You will work on distributed workflows and collaborate with R&D to ship production-grade work.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Extensions capabilities end to end
• Design and build distributed workflows that are efficient, reproducible, and observable in production
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists to translate requirements into engineering decisions
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks for enterprise deployments
• Contribute to architectural decisions regarding Extensions integration with the NEXUS backend
• Write clean, well-tested Python code
• Contribute to internal engineering documentation and establish backend development best practices

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong focus on Python
• Excellent Python skills
• Solid experience designing and operating distributed systems at production scale
• Strong understanding of concurrency, task execution, and workflow orchestration patterns
• Experience building systems that are reproducible, observable, and easy to debug in production
• Ability to work closely with non-engineering counterparts and translate complex requirements into reliable implementations
• Strong ownership mindset

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal, Dramatiq, Celery, or equivalent
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure or experience working alongside data science teams
• Experience with high-throughput data processing pipelines
• Exposure to Kubernetes and container-based deployment environments
• Background in performance profiling and optimization of Python services

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
• Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
• Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations

About the company

Fundamental is an AI research lab pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Their flagship model, NEXUS, is a Large Tabular Model purpose-built for structured records.