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Our customers consistently tell us that our data products create tremendous value and are deeply aligned with their most important workflows. As demand grows, we have an urgent opportunity to improve both the intelligence of our data and the systems through which customers access it.\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Match Team and help shape the next generation of Enigma’s customer-facing data products.\nYou will play a central role in architecting, building, and managing the critical engineering systems required to power fast, relevant, and reliable search and retrieval experiences at scale. This is a uniquely high-impact role sitting at the intersection of information retrieval, distributed systems, microservices, and customer data delivery.\nThe Role\nAt the core of Enigma’s product is our data, which makes delivery systems central to what we build.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer on the Match Team, you will lead efforts that improve the latency and scalability of our customer-facing data products. You’ll work across the full software lifecycle: translating product requirements into technical designs, and implementing high-throughput search and retrieval systems.\nThis role is ideal for an engineer who is excited by hard search problems and the systems challenges of delivering low-latency, production-grade retrieval systems.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments\nDesign and build low-latency, high-throughput search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems using Python, Typesense, and AWS\nEvaluate and evolve our search technology stack, driving technical design decisions across retrieval architecture, indexing strategies, and system performance tradeoffs\nSolve problems with containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS, and Terraform)\nLead end-to-end work from design and implementation through productionization and customer-facing delivery\nDetect and investigate anomalies in system performance and data freshness, tracing issues to root cause\nPride themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code\nPartner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to improve search experience and discoverability\nMentor teammates and help raise the bar for system design and operational excellence\nWhat Makes This Role Exciting?\nImpact: Your technical ability and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product in the market, driving critical decision making at multi-billion dollar companies.\nTechnical Challenge: Our systems integrate new technologies for database, information retrieval, distributed systems, microservices, elastic scaling, data pipelines, and more. This role focuses on the hardest challenges in large-scale retrieval systems, APIs, and distributed systems.\nOwnership: You’ll have meaningful autonomy to shape the production systems that power our core products, including having a strong voice in our tooling and vendor ecosystem.\nCustomer Proximity: Your work will directly influence how sophisticated customers integrate Enigma data into critical workflows and decision-making systems.\nOur Ideal Candidate\n5+ years of software engineering experience\nHas strong programming proficiency in Python and experience operating within cloud environments (AWS preferred)\nHas experience designing, fine-tuning, and operating high-scale backend systems, APIs, or data delivery platforms\nDemonstrated applied, production-level expertise in two or more of the following technical domains: distributed systems, information retrieval, or high-scale API development.\nEnjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, other engineers, our client stakeholders) to set clear expectations and solve common problems\nEffectively communicates technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences\nThrives in highly collaborative environments with strong ownership and fast iteration cycles\nIs driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world\nBonus Points If You\nHave deep experience with our core stack (Typesense, Python, AWS) or similar retrieval infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS)\nHave built customer-facing search or recommendation systems or APIs\nHave an outstanding track record of leading engineering teams\nHave extensive experience engineering SaaS data products\nHave mentored senior engineers and raised the technical bar across disciplines\nAbout Us\nAt Enigma, we’re building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values - generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive - guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data-together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.\nSalary Range: $180,000-$240,000\nA note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. 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