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Staff Software Engineer (Python)

Northbeam

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • backend
  • frontend
  • microservices / APIs / data processing
  • pipelines
  • system architecture
  • investigate issues, trace dependencies
  • find the right path
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • frontend specialization

Preferred

  • ensuring scalability and reliability
  • coding
  • AI

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer (Python) where you'll take product problems from ambiguity through architecture to production. You'll spend 70% of your time on backend and distributed systems work and 20-30% on frontend. You'll partner closely with data scientists, product managers, and designers, and your influence on what gets built will be significant.

About Northbeam

  • Most of your experience is in data-intensive backend engineering, but you've also shipped frontend work
  • You've been the person a team turns to when the architecture question doesn't have an obvious answer

Responsibilities

  • Architect and own the technical direction for new products, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and implement technical solutions that meet product needs.
  • Mentor and lead the engineering team, raising the standard for code quality and design.
  • Strong coding fundamentals, with AI used as an accelerator rather than a substitute for core capabilities

Requirements

  • 8+ years designing and building distributed backend systems, microservices, APIs, and/or data processing systems in Python
  • A generalist mindset and willingness to work across backend, frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure when the product requires it
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving how a team operates
  • Deep experience owning system architecture, including the tradeoffs that only surface at scale
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous product needs into sound technical architecture and production-ready solutions — repeatedly, across different problem spaces
  • Fluency navigating complex datasets and interconnected tables to investigate issues, trace dependencies, and find the right path forward
  • Working frontend experience with React and TypeScript; deep frontend specialization is NOT required
  • Startup experience, or experience in an environment demanding breadth, sound judgment, and strong problem-solving under ambiguity
  • A track record of partnering with product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape what gets built, not only how

Pay

USD 190,000 - 220,000