Senior Backend Engineer_Hybrid (NYC)

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Schedule: Full-time

Location: Hybrid (NYC)

Type of collaboration: Full-time employment

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We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a fast-moving applied AI and data analytics company as one of their highest-priority hires. The focus is twofold: architecting the platform to sustain significantly increased enterprise usage, and building innovative new features with decisions that hold up for years. This is a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) role — you will own systems end-to-end, from graph database layer to API infrastructure to data pipelines at scale. The sweet spot is someone senior enough to think architecturally, but still energized by hands-on implementation.

The platform connects an organization's entire data landscape — internal systems, social media trends, industry reports, consumer behavior signals — into a single coherent intelligence layer that surfaces insights and automates workflows that used to take analysts weeks. At its core is a production graph RAG system connecting temporal and sentiment data at enterprise scale — a key technical differentiator. As a senior backend IC, you will work across the graph database layer, API infrastructure, and data pipelines with concurrency at scale. You will collaborate with ML/AI engineers to bring predictive and prescriptive models into production, own system reliability under high-throughput conditions, and shape the long-term technical trajectory of the platform. There is currently a staff backend engineer working across large parts of the stack — you will be additive senior capacity, not a replacement.

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