Senior/Staff Back-end Engineer - Core Product and Data Infrastructure

About Trace

Trace is revolutionizing how organizations harness data to drive business performance. Our platform operationalizes the novel concept of metric trees creating org-wide alignment around key output metrics and their input drivers, while our ML/AI algorithms traverse these trees to automate analytical workflows.

Join our close-knit team on our audacious journey to build the next frontier of analytics and business intelligence software.

We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to be a significant technical contributor and decision-maker with meaningful equity. Check out Trace on our homepage and our problem domain on our blog.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior/Staff Back-End Engineer to play a pivotal role building and scaling the back-end architecture to support our rapidly growing user base.

In this role, you will:

Own core back-end services: Develop and maintain the key back-end services and APIs that power our metric tree applications, including the proprietary metrics modeling layer.

Build and scale infrastructure: Tackle core issues like latency, scalability, and security to ensure our platform remains reliable and high-performing.

Leverage ML/LLMs: Harness machine learning algorithms and large language models for advanced analysis, automation, and summarization features that bring insights to users.

About You

To thrive in this role, you bring:

Extensive experience building and scaling data-intensive applications, from data pipelines to machine learning algorithms or performant user-facing data products.

Proven track record working within a data product startup or within a data platform team.

Strong proficiency in Python or another data-intensive programming language, along with SQL, and demonstrated experience with TypeScript and Node.js.

Solid understanding of data modeling, business metrics, and the real-world use cases that drive value for businesses.

Drive for understanding and improving every aspect of the product, from infra to back-end to the end user experience.

Why Trace?

If you're driven by the opportunity to build something new, solve complex problems, and contribute to the future of data and analytics, Trace is the place for you. You'll have a direct impact on shaping a product that is transforming how companies operate and make decisions.

Join us and help shape the future of data and analytics.

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