Staff Software Engineer

• As a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Noetica, you’ll help build robust backend systems and APIs that power our search-centric web experience that’s core to the workflow of our end users
• This role is backend-leaning — you’ll spend most of your time on server-side architecture, data processing, and API design, while also contributing to frontend features as needed
• You will collaborate with a talented team of AI/ML PhDs, legal SMEs, and market strategists to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services
• The backend service you will contribute to is the critical piece between our data product and our end users
• Its system architecture decisions will influence the technical direction of our platform and decide our velocity of making impacts
• Your contributions will directly impact the performance and reliability of Noetica’s core infrastructure
• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform
• Write maintainable, high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines
• Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions
• Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite the productionization of our ever growing list of document insights
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and internal ML systems
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed to deliver features end to end
• Work on performance optimization for data-intensive backend operations
• Take ownership in engineering excellence and collaborate on code practices and design patterns to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability
• Take ownership in developer experience by improving/automating CI/CD and other day to day production operations

Preferred experience

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, database design, and data modeling
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend work
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Foundation in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and web fundamentals
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or Go) and API design
• Self-starting problem-solving approach biased towards action and scope minimization
• 10+ years of professional full-stack development experience with a strong focus on backend systems
• Experience with microservices architecture and message queues
• Understanding of CI/CD fundamentals and experience working in single-tenant architectures
• Experience building data processing pipelines or working with large-scale data systems
• Interest in language and economics
• Thrive in a high-leverage, fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with object-oriented design and functional programming principles
• Experience optimizing backend performance for data-intensive applications
• Familiar with technologies like monorepo, jujutsu, mise, pprof, etc

Recruitment process

• End Date: June 30, 2026