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Our location analytics platform provides unprecedented visibility into locations, markets, and consumer behavior. Placer empowers thousands of customers-from Fortune 500 companies, to local governments and nonprofits- to make smarter, data-driven decisions.\nWhat sets us apart? We've built the most advanced location intelligence platform in the market while maintaining an uncompromising commitment to privacy, proving that powerful analytics and responsible data practices can coexist.\nOur growth reflects the market's demand: we reached $100M in annual recurring revenue within just 6 years of launching, achieved unicorn status with a $1B+ valuation in 2022, and continue to expand rapidly as one of North America's fastest-growing tech companies. We're creating a $100B+ market opportunity, and we're just getting started.\nNamed one of Forbes America's Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company, we're building a culture where innovation thrives, collaboration is the norm, and every team member contributes to reshaping how the world understands location.\nSUMMARY:\nWe are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Data Export Team. In this role, you will lead the architecture and development of backend microservices that drive our entire distributed export ETL infrastructure. You will build the intelligent service layer responsible for orchestrating, executing, and scaling high-throughput batch and real-time data transformations.\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\nService Ownership: Own backend microservices end-to-end-from architecture and API design to production deployment, observability, and continuous execution tuning.\nETL Engine & Performance: Drive performance, throughput, and sub-second reliability across our distributed ETL infrastructure, using data, profiling, and operational metrics to guide architectural decisions.\nPipeline Infrastructure: Build, orchestrate, and scale high-throughput batch and real-time streaming data pipelines supporting analytics, export workflows, and UI platform integrations.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and cross domain RnD teams to turn complex data movement requirements into seamless backend integrations.\nTechnical Excellence: Raise the engineering bar across the team through design reviews, robust code reviews, asynchronous system architecture discussions, and technical mentorship.\nREQUIREMENTS:\nBackend Expertise: 5+ years of backend engineering experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed microservices.\n Data, ETLs & Databases: Hands-on experience architecting data-intensive systems, and high-throughput batch or real-time pipelines. Strong proficiency across diverse database technologies (relational, analytical warehouses like Postgres, Databricks, and Snowflake) with a track record of optimizing complex queries and data storage at scale.\n Engineering Fundamentals: Strong foundation in core system design, data structures, clean API design, automated testing, and production observability (metrics, tracing, logging).\n Cloud & Infrastructure: Excellent proficiency with cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for managing distributed execution environments.\nAI Productivity: Demonstrated use of AI tools to work more efficiently, whether professionally or personally, and a curiosity for finding new ways to apply them. Comfort integrating generative AI into day-to-day workflows to boost productivity, quality, and output.\nEducation: BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.\nNICE TO HAVE:\n Python Services & Scripting: Strong proficiency with Python as a core backend language-building clean, modular microservice APIs (using frameworks like FastAPI or Flask), writing asynchronous tasks, and wrapping data processing logic into testable Python packages.\nDistributed Processing with PySpark: Hands-on experience writing PySpark batch and streaming jobs to transform multi-terabyte datasets. Ability to optimize Spark execution plans, handle data skew, manage memory allocation, and minimize expensive shuffle operations across cluster nodes.\nWHY JOIN PLACER.AI?\nJoin a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating\nTake a central and critical role at Placer.ai\nWork with, and learn from, top-notch talent\nCompetitive salary\nExcellent benefitsFully remote\nNOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER \n Placer.ai's $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)\nSee our data in action atThe Anchor\nPlacer.ai in the news\nVideo: About Placer for Commercial Real Estate\nVideo Playlist: Placer Brand & Explainer Videos\nPlacer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.\nPlacer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. 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