Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location
Remote - US
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
Compensation
- $165K – $235K • Offers Equity
About the Position
The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who's passionate about building robust data pipelines, integrating with third-party APIs, and working with large-scale data infrastructure. Ideally, you're performance-minded and have experience with modern ETL patterns, workflow orchestration engines, and building API clients. This is a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency: where you can help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them.
If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data pipelines for storage, transformation, and export
- Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, incident management tools, AI coding assistants, etc.)
- Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing
- Design and implement data export pipelines
- Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development
- Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
- Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
Requirements
- You know how to build and scale data pipelines
- You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
- You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
- You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
- You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution
- You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others
- You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team
- Located in EST or CST time zone
Nice to Have
- You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
- You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
- You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
- You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use
We Offer
- Competitive salary range: $165K - $235K
- Offers Equity
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and a passionate team
- Remote work options
- Professional development opportunities
About the Company
Jellyfish is the leading intelligence platform for AI-Integrated engineering, helping more than 1,000 companies including DraftKings, Keller Williams, and Blue Yonder, leverage AI to transform how they build software. By combining the industry’s deepest engineering dataset with context-rich intelligence, Jellyfish helps R&D organizations understand what’s driving impact, adopt proven industry best practices, and make smarter decisions across AI adoption, planning, delivery, and engineering performance.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.