Backend Engineer

1 week, 3 days ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Tinybird

Tinybird

Tinybird is a real-time analytics platform that enables data teams and developers to build low-latency APIs in minutes using SQL. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves high-concurrency analytical queries, helping businesses turn data into r...

IT Services
11-50
Founded 2019
$40M raised

Description

  • Build and operate backend services, distributed systems, and production infrastructure components.
  • Design and implement customer-facing interfaces, APIs, and workflows for the product.
  • Contribute to multiple layers of the software stack, including work directly in ClickHouse.
  • Debug incidents, improve observability, and make services more reliable in production.
  • Balance performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity in day-to-day work.
  • Take ownership of ambiguous work and drive progress without fully defined requirements.
  • Document decisions, write operational notes, and communicate context clearly across teams.
  • Collaborate closely with platform, support, customer success, and engineering teams.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to keep services healthy and understand customer issues.
  • Use AI tools in the development, debugging, and code review workflow.

Requirements

  • Highly experienced backend engineer.
  • Strong experience building backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.
  • Highly proficient in Python; this is required for the role.
  • Comfortable working close to production, including incident debugging and system analysis.
  • Interest in data, SQL, and real-time analytical systems.
  • Clear written communication skills for asynchronous work.
  • Fluent in English and Spanish; English is the main company language and Spanish is used day to day in the Product team.
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
  • Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar as part of the daily workflow.
  • Preferred: pragmatic approach that balances speed, stability, safety, and maintainability.

Benefits

  • Remote-first company culture.
  • Occasional in-person meetups, especially in the Madrid office.
  • Few mandatory meetings, under 2 hours per week.
  • Opportunity to work on real-time data products and high-impact backend systems.

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