Blitzy

Senior Backend Engineer

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26 days ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$160k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Write, review, and ship production code that drives customer and business outcomes.
  • Own the reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle of software built for production.
  • Evaluate and drive technical decisions balancing speed, quality, security, and scalability.
  • Troubleshoot complex production challenges and serve as a trusted technical resource.
  • Build demos, prototypes, examples, and technical content to support technology adoption.
  • Collaborate with engineers, designers, sales executives, and other stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
  • Improve software development, deployment, and operations practices across the enterprise lifecycle.

Requirements

  • Direct experience with Python, Terraform, and AWS is required.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, Terraform, and Google Cloud Platform is required.
  • Proficiency with backend frameworks and technologies such as Node.js, NuxtJS, Express.js, or Python.
  • Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or Vercel.
  • Strong knowledge of Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, or Go.
  • Hands-on knowledge of RPC technologies and API architectures including gRPC or GraphQL.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Firebase.
  • Familiarity with Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, or similar CI/CD tools.
  • Experience with Git or Perforce.
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed application design.
  • Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, or SageMaker.
  • Ability to build and scale enterprise-grade applications with 99%+ service-level availability.

Benefits

  • Base compensation is $230,000-$250,000 plus bonus and equity.
  • The role is based in an in-person work environment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Blitzy offers an equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.

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About Blitzy

51-200 employees

Blitzy builds an agentic AI software development platform that ingests millions of lines across complex enterprise codebases to plan, generate, and validate production code. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Boston, sells to large engineering organizations modernizing or extending systems, offering an enterprise platform used to accelerate sprints and reduce manual effort; co-founders include Brian Elliott and former NVIDIA architect Sid Pardeshi.

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