# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: Kensho
**Location**: Cambridge, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150k-$225k
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Kensho, S&P Global's hub for AI innovation and transformation, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. You will develop reliable, secure, and performant APIs that apply Kensho's AI capabilities to specific customer workflows. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150k-$225k per year, plus an annual incentive bonus and equity plans.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and improve software

- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop system architectures, API specifications, and implementation requirements

- Test assumptions through instrumentation and prototyping

- Promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship

**Requirements:**

- At least five years of direct experience developing customer-facing APIs within a team

- Thoughtful and efficient communication skills (verbal and written)

- Experience developing RESTful APIs using various tools

- Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans

- Sound reasoning about the behavior and performance of loosely-coupled systems

- Proficiency with algorithms, data structures, and software architecture

- At least one domain of demonstrable technical depth

**Technologies & Tools:**

- Development: Python, Flask, FastAPI, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, Jsonnet

- Operations: AWS, Amazon EKS, Sentry, Prometheus, Git, Jenkins, Github Actions

**Benefits:**

- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

- 100% company-paid premiums

- Unlimited Paid Time Off

- 26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave

- 401(k) plan with 6% employer matching

- Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

- Up to $20,000 tuition assistance

- Plentiful snacks, drinks, and regularly catered lunches

- Dog-friendly office

- Bike sharing program memberships

- Compassion leave and elder care leave

- Mentoring and additional learning opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL
- Celery
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Kafka
- Jsonnet
- AWS
- Amazon EKS
- Sentry
- Prometheus
- Git
- Jenkins
- Github Actions

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