Senior Backend Engineer II, Data Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance the systems that drive Fetch’s data products.

• Develop and sustain data pipelines, manage data access, establish delivery infrastructure, and create integrations for partners.

• Recognize ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges and lead the resolution efforts.

• Take ownership of technical challenges and outline projects to tackle systemic issues.

• Establish and elevate standards for technical quality and reliability.

• Initiate refactoring efforts and promote system health enhancements.

• Direct multi-system projects, migrations, and phased rollouts in collaboration with various teams.

• Enhance team performance and minimize operational overhead through improved tools, processes, and platform capabilities.

• Influence the technical direction, goals, trade-offs, and strategies of the team.

• Work closely with Product, TPM, and partner engineering teams.

• Clarify trade-offs and decision-making responsibilities among stakeholders.

• Mentor peers and junior engineers while providing constructive feedback upwards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience, demonstrating increasing technical scope and responsibility.

• Strong background in platform or backend engineering with a focus on building reliable and scalable systems.

• Familiarity with data pipelines, integrations, or delivery infrastructure is advantageous.

• Capability to independently identify and define ambiguous technical challenges and implement solutions.

• Experience managing systems or components utilized by multiple teams or consumers.

• Proven track record of enhancing code quality, system health, or engineering practices.

• Experience in contributing to or leading cross-team technical projects, migrations, or phased rollouts.

• Solid grasp of data infrastructure fundamentals, including pipelines, governed data access, and large-scale delivery.

• Strong judgment in code reviews concerning rollout safety, monitoring, and operational risks.

• Mentorship experience with peers or junior engineers.

• Proficiency in modern software ecosystems like Kubernetes, event streaming, CI/CD, observability tools, and AI-assisted development workflows.

• Ability to articulate technical trade-offs clearly and foster stakeholder alignment without formal authority.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguous and dynamic environments with measurable outcomes.

• Preferred: Experience with data delivery, connectors, clean rooms, DSP integrations, or partner-facing data infrastructure.

• Preferred: Knowledge of data governance and compliance-oriented system design.

• Preferred: Experience in modernizing legacy systems or transitioning to newer architectures.

• Preferred: Familiarity with AdTech, MarTech, or data monetization ecosystems.

• Preferred: Experience in enhancing reliability, latency, or developer velocity on data- or integration-heavy platforms.

• Preferred: Experience providing upward feedback or informally mentoring across various levels.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity for full-time employees.

• 401(k) contribution matching dollar for dollar up to 4% of eligible pay.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including for pets.

• $10,000 annually in education reimbursement.

• Participation in Employee Resource Groups and the Inclusion Council.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Nine paid holidays.

• A week-long break at the end of the year.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• Six additional weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents.

• Flexible return-to-work schedule.

• One-time $2,000 Calvin Care Cash incentive for new family members.

• Flexible work environment, including fully remote work from anywhere in the US for US-based roles.

• Hardware and software provided for home work.