Staff-Level Backend-Focused Software Engineer
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Northbeam is fundamentally a data productâthe entire company. We donât sell shoes, ads, or games. We sell data: quality integrations with a variety of platforms, fresh and reliable data pulls, robust data ingest APIs, correct aggregations, and algorithmic insights on top of that data, all packaged up in a user-facing application.
What this means for you is that high-quality, robust data integration is at the core of what we do, and your work will have a direct connection to the companyâs success.
Weâre looking for a Staff-level Software Engineer who leans backend and can take product problems from ambiguity through architecture to production. Youâll spend roughly 70% of your time on backend and distributed systems work and 20â30% on frontend, giving you the ability to own capabilities across the stack and make architectural calls that hold up on both sides.
Youâll take new products from early traction to meaningful scale, and set the technical direction that gets them there. That includes architecting our new incrementality offering into a scalable experimentation platform, defining our approach to near real-time data infrastructure, and establishing how AI shows up in our marketing usersâ workflows. Youâll partner closely with data scientists, product managers, and designers, and your influence on what gets built will be as real as your influence on how.
Your Impact
- Architect our new incrementality product into a reliable, repeatable experimentation platform, and own the technical decisions that determine whether it scales.
- Set the direction for near-real-time ingestion and processing as we move beyond batch workflows.
- Define the patterns for AI-powered workflows that help marketers evaluate performance and act on insightsâthe first version and the framework that follows it.
- Lead work on connection-state systems and the partner ecosystem across data ingestion and exports.
- Shape technical approach in adjacent product areas such as role-based access control (RBAC).
- Multiply the team: design review, mentorship, and raising the standard for what ships.
What You Bring
- 8+ years designing and building distributed backend systems, microservices, APIs, and/or data processing systems in Python.
- Deep experience owning system architecture, including the tradeoffs that only surface at scale.
- A track record of partnering with product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape what gets built, not only how.
- Startup experience, or experience in an environment demanding breadth, sound judgment, and strong problem-solving under ambiguity.
- Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous product needs into sound technical architecture and production-ready solutionsârepeatedly, across different problem spaces.
- Fluency navigating complex datasets and interconnected tables to investigate issues, trace dependencies, and find the right path forward.
- Working frontend experience with React and TypeScript; deep frontend specialization is NOT required.
- Strong coding fundamentals, with AI used as an accelerator rather than a substitute for core capabilities.
- A generalist mindset and willingness to work across backend, frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure when the product requires it.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving how a team operates.
Bonus Skills & Experience
- Most of your experience is in data-intensive backend engineering, but youâve also shipped frontend work.
- Youâve been the person a team turns to when the architecture question doesnât have an obvious answer.
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Northbeam
View Company ProfileNorthbeam is a marketing analytics platform designed to help e-commerce businesses understand and optimize their customer acquisition costs. They provide a comprehensive view of marketing performance across various channels, enabling data-driven decision-making and improved ROI. Their platform focuses on attribution modeling, cohort analysis, and customer lifetime value (CLV) prediction.
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