Senior Software Engineer

💻 Senior Backend Engineer - Event-Driven & Data Ingestion🏢 Series B · AI Code Review📍 Manhattan, NYC - Hybrid (target 3 days/week, genuinely flexible)💰 $180,000 – $240,000 base + equityMyself and Strive have partnered on a retained basis with a client who builds AI-powered code review that helps engineering teams move fast and ship with confidence. ARR has grown 10x in the last 12 months. The product has serious traction!We're looking to find a Senior Backend Engineer for their central platform team - the group that builds the infrastructure every other team depends on.🔧 What you'll own:Self-serve & onboarding - the backend from first signup through customer journeysAnalytics & ETL backbone - pipelines moving product, usage and billing events into a warehouse GTM and product teams can trustPlatform foundations - billing, entitlements, org/user management and the shared APIs underneath everythingTechnical leadership - architecture decisions, engineering standards and mentoring across the platform areaThis is load-bearing work. The systems you build will sit under the entire product.🛠 Stack: Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · Pub/Sub / Kafka / RabbitMQ · GCP · OpenAI integrations✅ You'll be a strong fit if you have:7+ years building backend systems, data platforms, or production developer toolingStrong Python or other backend languages like Go & JavaExperience designing and running event-driven systems with Pub/Sub / Kafka / RabbitMQ or ETL pipelines in productionCloud capabilities with GCP or AWSComfort owning systems end-to-end - schema, APIs, deployment, observability, on-callBonus: PLG/self-serve product experience, billing systems, dbt/BigQuery or early-stage startup backgroundThis is a retained search - I know this team, this codebase, and what they're really looking for.If this sounds like your kind of problem space, DM me click APPLY now!