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Senior Backend Data Engineer

Opportunities at Pendulum

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong Industry Experience: Steady upward career progression in Software Engineering
  • Complex Architectures: Design, implement, and maintain platforms, engines, or frameworks
  • Distributed compute big data: Experience with distributed compute and performance challenges of large scale data
  • CS Fundamentals: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Responsibilities

  • Build enterprise grade APIs and backend services
  • Ship commercial solutions that work at scale
  • Operationalize data and ML for teams to unlock their power
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to an engineering team

About the company

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Opportunities at Pendulum

*We are the Eyes and Ears of Your Brand Story* Your most impactful brand moments are hidden in the background of unscripted TikToks and vlogs, spoken in community podcasts, and incubating on niche platforms like BitChute and Rumble. These mentions represent the invisible equity that defines your true market impact. Pendulum is the first Agentic Social Intelligence Platform providing eyes and ears for global brands and using advanced AI to bridge the gap between passive monitoring and social intelligence. Why choose Pendulum: ~ Multimodal Mastery: Unlike others who only search metadata, our AI looks at both visuals and audio. Using speech and logo recognition, we find untagged mentions on over 25 platforms and in more than 75 languages. ~ Brand reputation: Instead of reacting to crises, you can now monitor your reputation proactively. Our Skyline 3D Command Center helps you spot new trends as they happen. ~ Forensic Influencer Vetting: We review up to 4 years of unscripted content to ensure your partners fit your brand’s future, not just their recent highlights. You get results in minutes, whether you need to check one influencer or a thousand. ~ The Data Pulse: In today’s social landscape, a weekly report is already outdated. We update your insights every few hours, so you can shape the conversation instead of just watching it. Social media is no longer just about text. If you only track hashtags, mentions, and headlines, you’re missing out on most of the data that matters. Whether you’re a large food and beverage company looking for hidden reach or an executive protecting your company’s reputation, Pendulum gives you the reliable, timely data you need to protect your brand’s story. Don’t just watch the highlights. See your brand’s full story. Visit pendulumintel.com to schedule your brand briefing.

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About Us

Pendulum offers unmatched social data coverage, ensuring companies never miss conversations they care about across video, audio, image, and text content – including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, podcasts, Reddit, and more. Based on proprietary machine learning (ML) technology, the Pendulum Intelligence platform has the most comprehensive social media coverage to help enterprise brands proactively identify opportunities and mitigate risks, enabling better decision-making across the organization.


We are deeply inspired by our mission, motivated by solving hard technical problems, and obsessed with our customers. Fulfilling our mission demands bringing together a team with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. Diverse teams are the strongest teams because their plurality of experience enriches and expands the solution space and enriches decision-making. Diversity and inclusion are therefore core to our values and at the forefront of our hiring philosophy and day-to-day operations.



About the role

We are currently seeking a Senior Backend Data Engineer who can help drive the efforts to extend our web-scale data ingestion and processing pipeline. As part of this team, you will work as a tech leader and subject matter expert to improve the scalability, robustness, and value of our data ingestion and processing pipeline while leveraging the latest cloud technologies and AI / ML models.

What you'll do

  • Build our enterprise grade APIs: Our platform encompasses a broad spectrum of use-cases across a variety of domains. We need you to help build the APIs, backend services and data stores to empower our customers.
  • Ship commercial solutions: Our users have a huge job to do, at a massive scale. So, we need to build tremendous, powerful software that just works.
  • ML and big data in real life: Data and ML are at the core of what we do, and we are operationalizing them so that risk & intel, communications, and marketing teams at large companies and organizations can unlock their power. Doing so requires versatile, yet opinionated products - which require versatile, but opinionated engineers.

What you've done

  • Strong Industry Experience: Shown a steady upward career progression in the art of Software Engineering.
  • Complex Architectures: Design, implement, and maintain platforms, engines, or frameworks that others consume. Deliver APIs consumed by modern web applications with an understanding of the complexities and nuances of microservices and databases.
  • Distributed compute & big data: You've worked with distributed compute, and have tackled the performance challenges of large scale data. You've used serverless AWS components as building blocks like API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, and DynamoDB.
  • Modern Backend Expertise: Build backend services and systems with languages like Python, Rust, or Go, and understand the complexities and nuances of CRUD, Graph API, and microservices.
  • CS Fundamentals: Earned at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Collaborate closely with product and sales teams to translate complex business needs into intuitive, performant tools.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small but growing engineering team, setting coding standards, guiding architectural decisions, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.

What we offer

  • Grow as a professional by working with emerging technologies in a high-demand industry segment
  • Drive company direction at a company that encourages input from all levels to help shape our trajectory
  • Experience working at a technology company in which the mission focus is on tackling one of society’s greatest challenges
  • Learn from industry and government experts who value initiative and encourage innovation
  • Enjoy the flexibility to work remotely, unlimited PTO, company (and two personal-choice) holidays
  • Receive excellent benefits, including 100% employer-paid employee health premiums for an individual, 401(k), and FSA

The Senior Backend Engineer / Data Engineer position offers a base salary range of $150,000 to $240,000, along with equity and comprehensive benefits. Please note that this range serves as a guideline; actual total compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skill set, qualifications, and geographic location.

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