Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
Work remotely on a data ingestion team responsible for designing, building, testing, and maintaining highly transactional backend services. You will create scalable data acquisition strategies, integrate diverse sources, and develop reliable production systems using TypeScript, Node.js, containers, HTTP clients, and modern testing practices.
Highlights
Fully remote senior engineering role with a high base salary and performance-related additional compensation. Offers ownership of scalable, highly transactional data systems and challenging work involving data acquisition, distributed services, and robust backend engineering.
Description
100% Remote
Compensation: $170K-$200K base + 10%
Client: Sports and ticket data leader
Size: late stage startup, 400 employees, heavily revenue positive
As a member of our data ingestion team, you will envision, create, test, and maintain code for several highly transactional services.
Your role will involve designing robust and scalable data acquisition strategies, ensuring the efficient and reliable flow of data from diverse sources into our systems.
Technical Qualifications
● Must have 10 years of Software Development experience
● Must have 2+ years of experience with TypeScript/NodeJS and deep understanding of writing well-typed, object-oriented code
● Must have experience running container based applications (Docker, Docker Compose)
● Must have 2+ years experience leveraging HTTP knowledge and client skills, e.g.
got, cURL, axios ● Must be highly proficient in unit testing methodologies, e.g.
with Jest or Vitest
● Must have hands on experience coding applications that run and reside on AWS hosted solutions
Related Qualifications
● Experience with Dependency Injection/DI containers
● Knowledge about best practices relative to end-to-end testing with e.g.
Playwright, Puppeteer, Cypress, Selenium
● Experience with Redis/Elasticache
● Experience with DynamoDB
● Broad Linux knowledge
● Hands on experience setting up Monitoring/observability platforms, e.g.
Datadog, New Relic
● Must be familiar with using LLMs to increase engineering velocity while still maintaining high coding standards and developer-friendly code
Nice to haves
● Experience with man-in-the-middle techniques (Proxyman, HTTP Toolkit, Wireshark), reverse engineering, understanding decompiled code
● Understanding of fingerprinting techniques (browser, OS, networking stack, etc.) ● Work experience running applications on ECS/EKS
● Has utilized and written Serverless functions (Lambda)
● Knowledgeable about Queueing systems, e.g.
SQS, BullMQ
● Familiar with GitHub Actions
● Has experience with Domain Driven Design/Clean Architecture
● Has experience with Java/Android Studio
● Worked with Front end frameworks, e.g.
React, Vue
● Has hand rolled infrastructure as code, e.g.
CDK, SAM, CloudFormation, Terraform
Education
● Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in a software engineering role
● Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
Core Qualifications
● Assist team members with problem-solving complex use cases and systems; while leading technical change and transformation in parallel.
● Must be passionate about creating solutions, and solving problems – in the right way, at the right time, and for the right reasons.
● Must be teachable, give and receive feedback, and demonstrate success in their discipline on a consistent and transparent basis.
● Must be able to work on a team whose work is not cookie-cutter.
Creative solutions are always needed, and there aren’t straightforward answers to every question.
Everyone on the team needs to be a confident, motivated self-starter who can work through difficult problems.
