Senior Backend Engineer, Data & Integrations
Buzz Solutions3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Own data flows between ingestion, processing, and core API services with idempotency and clear message contracts.
- Design schemas, queries, indexes, query plans, locking strategies, and zero-downtime database migrations.
- Build backend API endpoints and tables for entity, process, and state data.
- Develop and harden Pub/Sub and BullMQ event pipelines with at-least-once delivery, retries, dead-letter handling, and out-of-order message support.
- Build reliable customer integrations with IBM Maximo, Esri ArcGIS, and SSO identity providers.
- Create safe, repeatable production tools for moving millions of rows or images.
- Add metrics and tracing to identify slow or missing data.
- Participate in on-call and maintain actionable runbooks and incident notes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building backend or platform systems in production.
- Production TypeScript experience on Node.js, including asynchronous error handling and connection pools.
- Deep PostgreSQL experience with EXPLAIN ANALYZE BUFFERS, index design, transactions, isolation levels, and row locking.
- Experience performing zero-downtime schema changes on large tables, including concurrent index builds, batched backfills, and expand-and-contract migrations.
- Experience designing event-driven integrations with at-least-once delivery, idempotency, retries, dead-letter queues, and out-of-order messages.
- Strong written communication skills demonstrated through design documents, runbooks, and incident notes.
- Equivalent experience with different queues, clouds, or frameworks is considered.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Buzz Solutions
Buzz Solutions builds a SaaS platform for utilities to manage and analyze visual inspection data from drones, helicopters, and field crews, detecting faults on transmission and distribution assets with computer vision. It sells software and services to electric utilities to automate grid inspections and maintenance workflows. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the company is privately held.