Senior Backend Software Engineer
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This Senior Backend Engineer will own core backend services, including data ingestion, processing, orchestration, and delivery at scale, for a platform powering end-to-end workflow automation in financial services. The role involves closely collaborating with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to evolve a system processing high-volume, high-stakes customer interaction data reliably and fast.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power Spring Labs’ core platform
- Own data ingestion and processing pipelines (batch + real-time) for large, messy, multi-source datasets
- Productionize machine-learning workflows by integrating models into backend systems with clear contracts, monitoring, and rollback paths
- Design and maintain scalable service architectures (APIs, workers, queues, schedulers)
- Improve system reliability through better testing, observability, error handling, and automation
- Partner closely with data science to turn experiments into durable, production-grade systems
- Influence architecture decisions and set backend engineering standards as the platform scales
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs and backend services
- Experience working with data pipelines and processing frameworks
- Exposure to event-driven systems, queues, or workflow engines
- Comfortable deploying and operating services in production (monitoring, debugging, scaling)
- Familiarity with databases (relational and/or NoSQL) and data modeling
- Experience integrating ML/LM models into production systems
- Strong engineering judgment
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus
Nice to Have
- Experience with distributed systems
- Comfortable using AI-assisted and agentic coding tools
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
About Spring Labs
Spring Labs builds a unified platform powering end-to-end workflow automation for customer support and compliance teams in financial services. Their AI-native system interprets customer intent, understands regulatory nuance, and orchestrates complex processes through configurable automation.