Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SITE Technologies, founded in 2018, is on a mission to revolutionize facility management with cutting-edge AI solutions. They are seeking a thoughtful and versatile Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build and evolve SITE's platform and related customer systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain core backend APIs and services, primarily in Python and FastAPI
- Translate complex product workflows into clear domain models, relational schemas, service boundaries, and API contracts
- Build reliable integrations across geospatial, media, reporting, asset management, and third-party vendor systems
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release practices, automated testing, and developer workflows
- Develop and maintain ETL and data migration processes when needed, especially for imagery, geospatial, and operational data
- Contribute to cloud infrastructure design, security, observability, performance, and production reliability
Skills
- Very strong ability to reason from first principles about backend architecture, workflow modeling, API boundaries, data consistency, security, and operational failure modes
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across product, frontend, data, and business teams
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with strong proficiency in Python
- Experience building production APIs with FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
- Strong understanding of relational data modeling, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy or comparable ORM libraries, and database migration tools such as Alembic or Flyway
- Experience with AWS backend services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, etc
- Experience with Docker, Git, and designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools
- Practical fluency with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor
- Experience working in a dynamic startup environment
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform and Terragrunt
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog and Sentry
- Experience designing authentication and authorization flows
- Experience with 2D and 3D geospatial data
- Experience with ETL pipeline development, data migration, or large-scale unstructured data processing
- Experience building agentic systems with tools such as LangGraph, Claude Code SDK, Amazon Bedrock
- Experience modernizing legacy systems while preserving production behavior
Benefits
- This is a remote, US based position that can be based in one of 18 states where SITE is an employer.
- A competitive base salary plus the opportunity to participate in SITE’s stock options plan.
- Generous paid vacation and separate sick time banks.
- Ten (10) Company holidays off plus two (2) floating holidays.
- Two (2) paid days per year to do volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave benefits available after ninety (90) days of employment.
- Employee health, dental, vision, life and short-term disability coverage at no cost available on the first of the month after your hire date.
- 401K plan with a 4% employer safe harbor contribution.
- A strong workplace culture with a smart, collaborative team.
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