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Senior Software Engineer, Python

northbeam Remote - USA • Remote - Canada


No Relocation

Posted: August 13, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

We’re looking for a senior-level software engineer who leans backend and can take product problems from first principles through implementation. You’ll spend roughly 70% of your time on backend and distributed systems work and 20–30% on frontend work, giving you the ability to own features across the stack when needed.

You’ll help take new products and capabilities from early traction to meaningful scale — designing reliable backend systems while contributing the frontend components required to deliver complete product experiences. This work could include helping expand our new incrementality offering into a scalable experimentation platform, building near real-time data infrastructure or building AI into our marketing user's workflows.  You'll have an opportunity to collaborate with a cross-functional team of data scientists, product managers, and designers along the way.

Your Impact

  • Scale our new incrementality product into a reliable, repeatable experimentation platform.
  • Develop near-real-time ingestion and processing capabilities to move beyond batch workflows.
  • Build new AI-powered workflows that help marketers evaluate performance and act on insights.
  • Improve connection-state systems and help extend the partner ecosystem across data ingestion and exports.
  • Work on other product areas such as role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Contribute to frontend work when needed to deliver complete experiences.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed backend systems, microservices, APIs and/or data processing systems written in Python. 
  • Multiple years of professional experience building system architecture.
  • Experience working closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists while independently driving implementation and delivery.
  • Previous startup experience or working in an environment where engineers need breadth, sound judgment, and strong problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated experience turning ambiguous product needs into sound technical architecture and production-ready solutions.
  • The ability to navigate complex datasets and interconnected tables to investigate issues, trace dependencies, and identify the right path forward in ambiguous technical situations.
  • Working frontend experience with technologies such as React and TypeScript; deep frontend specialization is not required.
  • Strong coding fundamentals and the ability to solve technical problems independently, 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.

You may be a strong fit if

  • Most of your experience is in data-intensive backend engineering, but you have also shipped frontend work.

Additional Content

About the Role

We’re looking for a senior-level software engineer who leans backend and can take product problems from first principles through implementation. You’ll spend roughly 70% of your time on backend and distributed systems work and 20–30% on frontend work, giving you the ability to own features across the stack when needed.

You’ll help take new products and capabilities from early traction to meaningful scale — designing reliable backend systems while contributing the frontend components required to deliver complete product experiences. This work could include helping expand our new incrementality offering into a scalable experimentation platform, building near real-time data infrastructure or building AI into our marketing user's workflows.  You'll have an opportunity to collaborate with a cross-functional team of data scientists, product managers, and designers along the way.

Your Impact

  • Scale our new incrementality product into a reliable, repeatable experimentation platform.
  • Develop near-real-time ingestion and processing capabilities to move beyond batch workflows.
  • Build new AI-powered workflows that help marketers evaluate performance and act on insights.
  • Improve connection-state systems and help extend the partner ecosystem across data ingestion and exports.
  • Work on other product areas such as role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Contribute to frontend work when needed to deliver complete experiences.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed backend systems, microservices, APIs and/or data processing systems written in Python. 
  • Multiple years of professional experience building system architecture.
  • Experience working closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists while independently driving implementation and delivery.
  • Previous startup experience or working in an environment where engineers need breadth, sound judgment, and strong problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated experience turning ambiguous product needs into sound technical architecture and production-ready solutions.
  • The ability to navigate complex datasets and interconnected tables to investigate issues, trace dependencies, and identify the right path forward in ambiguous technical situations.
  • Working frontend experience with technologies such as React and TypeScript; deep frontend specialization is not required.
  • Strong coding fundamentals and the ability to solve technical problems independently, 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.

You may be a strong fit if

  • Most of your experience is in data-intensive backend engineering, but you have also shipped frontend work.