Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Backend Software Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. Compensation starts at $150,000 per year, with the final amount dependent on experience. Swish Analytics builds predictive sports analytics data products for consumer and enterprise clients. The engineer owns core backend products and guides work from design through production operation. The role improves APIs, microservices, data processing, reliability, and performance while partnering across engineering, infrastructure, data, and product teams.

What you'll do

• Lead and own core backend products from design through production
• design and improve high-traffic APIs and microservices
• identify and address performance and scalability bottlenecks
• develop real-time and distributed data services
• document architecture tradeoffs
• review code and improve standards and testing
• improve observability and automation
• contribute to shared tooling, Kubernetes optimization, and cloud efficiency.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior backend software engineer

backend systems

node.js

python

apis and microservices

distributed data

kafka

kubernetes

san francisco ca

swish analytics

starting at $150k

technical leadership

production systems

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Senior technical ownership; backend systems across APIs, microservices, Kafka, databases, observability, and Kubernetes; base salary starts at $150,000.

About the employer

Swish Analytics is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.