As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll develop backend systems, interact with users, architect scalable solutions, and ensure system integrity and performance.
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you'll play a vital role in building and maintaining Anomalo’s distributed backend systems. You'll define, shape, and ship the backend development of new, innovative product features. You’ll evolve our backend systems for scale and reliability. You'll also work closely with our Product, Design, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success teams to better understand the needs of our customers.
What you'll do at as a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Anomalo:- Own backend development of new product features alongside product and design
- Interact with end-users to deeply understand their needs and build the right solution
- Architect systems that can be deployed and maintained at an enterprise scale
- Maintain Anomalo’s Django/ Celery-powered backend platform ensuring stability, performance, scale, and maintainability.
- Define the data model across our backend data sources
- Champion the adoption of best practices across the team and throughout the organization
- 10+ years of software development or equivalent experience
- Expert in Python, Django / Celery experience is highly preferred
- Deep proficiency in SQL and experience writing performant queries with an understanding of internal query planners
- Experience architecting highly-available distributed systems, including production-grade ML workloads.
- Willingness and ability to flex up and down our stack as circumstances require
- Ability to effectively communicate both internally with peers and externally with our customers
- Passion for a values-driven organization
- Experience working for a high-growth start-up preferred
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience
- Supportive colleagues who love to learn together
- A variety of challenging and rewarding projects that directly impact company goals, with a high degree of ownership
- Mentorship and opportunities for career growth
- The estimated annual salary range for this role is $175-230k plus meaningful equity
- A best in class benefits package including: unlimited time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, fertility and family planning coverage, mental health and wellness coverage, quarterly offsites in exciting destinations to spend time with your colleagues
- Planned travel once per quarter to spend time with the team is required
Perks of working at Anomalo:
- 🎯 Make An Impact: Join a growing company that delights our customers. Our modern UI and rich visualizations help our customers solve unknowns and anticipate data issues before they happen.
- 🔍 A values-driven, open and transparent culture that supports autonomy and growth.
- 🏡 Fully Remote: We were fully remote before it was a thing, and we believe your best work happens on your schedule. We offer a generous $1,000 stipend to ensure your remote office is comfortable.
- ✈ Quarterly Onsites: While we love the flexibility of being remote-first, we also recognize the value of spending time together in person. We make time to get together (in a new destination!) for a company-wide offsite each quarter.
- 🌴 Generous Time Off: Enjoy 17 company holidays and unlimited vacation time that we encourage you to take. We also have a company-wide winter break the last week of the year.
- 🩹 Health Benefits: Comprehensive family-friendly medical, dental, and vision insurance plans. Anomalo covers 90% of your premiums. We provide access to family planning and reproductive care for our employees and their families by partnering with Carrot Fertility. We provide mental health and wellness benefits for all employees, covered at 100%.
- 🍼 Family Comes First: We offer 16 weeks of parental leave, during which you will receive your full pay.
- 💸 Investment in the company & your future: Every employee is granted a meaningful equity package. We also offer life insurance and a 401(k) plan.
Many of our benefits and perks are designed for full-time employees, with some available only to team members based in the United States.
What we value:- Own It: We don’t just do our jobs—we own getting to the best results across the company.
- Act & Adapt: We prioritize action, learn from mistakes, and continuously improve with humility and curiosity.
- Thrive Together: We embrace diversity, assume best intentions, and support each other to succeed as a team.
- Opacity Zero: Thoughtful transparency enables us to work autonomously and make great decisions.
- Customer Focus: We anticipate, innovate for, and deliver what matters most to our current and future customers.
- Work Smart: Work when, where, and how you’re most effective—outcomes matter more than hours.
About Anomalo
Anomalo is the automated AI solution that integrates with the modern data stack to monitor data quality. Using unsupervised learning, it detects complex issues like distribution changes that static rules miss. With built-in root cause analysis, Anomalo identifies anomalies, their causes, and their impact, helping data teams focus on building instead of debugging.
We’re rapidly growing and work with some of the biggest brands leveraging data today, like Block, Discover, Atlassian, and Included Health. Backed by $82M in seed through Series B extension funding from top-tier firms, including SignalFire, Norwest Venture Partners, Databricks Ventures, Foundation Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, and First Round Capital, Anomalo is enabling companies to make better data-driven decisions.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be shared.
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Top Skills
Celery
Django
Python
SQL
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