# Senior Backend Engineer (Data) 1

About the role We're growing the team that keeps our data infrastructure running and our archive growing. This is hands-on work at the intersection of Python, Django, and databases at real scale. You will: Maintain and extend the hundreds of scrapers that continuously pull court data into our system Ingest millions of documents and merge them safely into our production database Help build and evolve the portal receiving our digitization work at the United States Library of Congress, where a team is scanning millions of pages Convert scanned material into structured text and documents, and merge it into the archive without breaking what's already there Work on the machine learning processes that identify and remove copyrighted material - a critical safeguard for a nonprofit like ours Design batch operations that run across five to ten million records efficiently, without taking the databases down Diagnose slow queries, review migrations, and be a person the team can rely on when something in the database needs a second pair of eyes Hard requirements Please don't apply if you don't have real experience in these areas: Python, professionally and at depth Django - this is th

- **Id**: 3405168
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/combinegr-senior-backend-engineer-data-1>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-12T18:46:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T12:31:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 85
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1956
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4483439
- **Name**: Combinegr
- **Domain**: combinegr.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/combinegr>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Teamtailor

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Celery** — Optional: yes
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OCR** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 85

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T15:58:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.394
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 85
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:4, agency, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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