[Remote] Senior Backend and Data Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Condor is a company focused on providing financial intelligence for life sciences. They are seeking a Senior Backend and Data Platform Engineer to architect and build data foundations that support financial and clinical trial data analytics, while collaborating with an engineering team to design and maintain data pipelines and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and transform financial and clinical trial data from multiple internal and external sources, with a focus on making data suitable for analytics, reporting, and LLM-based AI agents
• reputed company backend services and data access layers that expose high-quality financial data to internal systems and customer-facing features, ensuring data is structured for direct consumption by LLMs and automated workflows
• Implement and operate embedding pipelines and vectorized representations of structured and semi-structured data to support semantic search, RAG, and agentic workflows
• Optimize database performance, query execution, and batch processing jobs to support large-scale financial datasets and AI-driven access patterns
• Participate in architectural reputed company around data infrastructure, storage strategies, and integration with LLMs, embeddings, and vector databases
• Work closely with product managers and analysts to translate business requirements into durable datasets, metrics, and APIs
• Contribute to frontend implementations to ensure data-heavy and AI-enabled features are presented clearly and correctly
• Mentor other engineers on data modeling best practices, SQL performance optimization, ETL design patterns, and building reliable, observable data systems Skills
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and data engineering
• Deep expertise in SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar), including reputed company analytical queries and performance tuning
• Experience building and operating ETL or ELT pipelines using orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or AWS reputed company Functions)
• Production experience building AI-powered data systems, including vector databases (pgvector, reputed company), embedding pipelines, and designing data access patterns for RAG and agentic workflows
• A pragmatic approach to the full stack, including a willingness to contribute to React codebases to ensure data-heavy features are delivered end-to-end
• Familiarity with data quality validation, testing, and monitoring practices in production systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong proficiency in Python, with experience using web frameworks (Django, DRF)
• Experience working with modern data warehouse platforms (reputed company, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Experience integrating backend systems or data pipelines with LLM APIs for enrichment, summarization, or analysis
• Experience with data transformation and validation tools (dbt, Great Expectations)
• Experience building production AI features end-to-end, including LLM integration, reputed company engineering, agentic workflows, and observability/evaluation frameworks
• Experience working in a Series A-C startup with rapid scale Benefits
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
• Comprehensive employee benefits, including 100% company-paid health, dental, reputed company, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with a 3% company match that vests immediately
• Unlimited PTO Company Overview
• Condor powers smarter financial reputed company in clinical development by combining financial intelligence, automation, and deep industry expertise. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job

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