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Senior Backend Engineer (Data Platform)

Bluefish

New York, NY · full time · Senior

Listed on Bluefish’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Bluefish AI seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and operate production data platform infrastructure supporting their AI marketing platform, building reliable systems that ingest, process, and deliver data at scale. This role suits engineers with deep distributed systems experience who want ownership of critical backend services in a fast-growing startup tackling enterprise AI marketing.

Our summary, not Bluefish’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • 5+ years building and operating production backend or data platform systems
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals including event-driven architectures and async processing
  • Experience with AWS services: SQS, SNS, Kafka, Lambda, ECS, S3, EventBridge
  • SQL and NoSQL database experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
  • Design systems with robust error handling, idempotency, and reliable delivery guarantees
  • Productive in both Python and TypeScript
  • Experience mentoring mid-level and junior engineers

Nice to have

  • Pipeline orchestration experience
  • Web scraping or data acquisition at scale
  • Vector databases or ML-adjacent infrastructure like embeddings and inference endpoints
  • Big data experience with AI/ML platforms
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Cross-functional partnership with product, AI, BI, and data science teams
  • Experience in distributed teams across time zones

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