Senior Software Development Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 21, 2026.
Senior Backend Engineer
What You'll Do :
- Build and scale the core backend and infrastructure powering a customer feedback intelligence platform - owning systems from data ingestion through real-time analytics.
- Harden ML and NLP infrastructure, including pipelines, model serving, and data flows, so features remain reliable in real-world production environments at scale.
- Own critical infrastructure decisions around data models, event flows, and service boundaries, with strong correctness and data-integrity guarantees.
- Instrument systems deeply for observability, ensuring failures surface early and production behavior becomes a source of continuous learning.
- Balance speed, cost, and long-term system health, making pragmatic, cost-effective trade-offs while shipping continuously.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and the founding team to turn ambiguous problem statements into clear, scalable infrastructure.
- Raise the engineering bar through clean code, thorough design reviews, mentorship, and platform-level improvements.
What It Takes :
- 6-8 years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and shipping reliable systems in production.
- 3+ years at a single organization where you've built infrastructure from the ground up and owned complex projects end to end.
- Deep expertise in infrastructure, including data pipelines, event-driven and microservices architectures, observability, reliability, and cost optimization.
Tech Stack :
- Golang, serverless computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, Elasticsearch, or GraphQL.
Bonus :
- Experience building or operating ML/NLP infrastructure such as data pipelines, model serving, feature stores, or inference systems.
Why This Opportunity :
- High Impact : Build foundational backend and infrastructure systems at an early-stage, high-growth technology company.
- Ownership : Take end-to-end responsibility for critical features, systems, and infrastructure.
- Complex Challenges : Work across ML/NLP infrastructure, distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time analytics.
- Growth : Deepen your technical expertise while having the opportunity to grow into a technical leadership path.
- Culture : Work in an open, collaborative, and values-driven environment with significant autonomy.
- Benefits : Competitive compensation, equity, hybrid work setup, premium healthcare, and more.
Skills
Golang, Microservices Architecture, Distributed Systems, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Data Infrastructure, Backend Architecture