Backend Engineer (Only W2)

Role: Backend Engineer

Location: Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract (W2)

Requirements:

5+ years of software experience, with 3+ years of relevant data and software experience.

Experience in building large datasets and scalable services.

Experience deploying and running services in AWS, and engineering big-data solutions using technologies like Databricks, EMR, S3, Spark

Experience loading and querying cloud-hosted databases such as Redshift and Snowflake

Experience designing and developing backend microservices for large-scale distributed systems using gRPC or REST

Experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, and container systems such as Docker or Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of the Python/Scala/Java data ecosystem

Experience building streaming pipelines using Kafka, Spark, Flink, or Samza

Excellent communication and people engagement skills

Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation.

Mentor colleagues on best practices and technical concepts of building large-scale solutions.