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# Staff Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** SENSE, LLC
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Software Bug Management, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Cloud Platform System, Backend, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=738025040b5fadb3

## About the Role

The ideal candidate will have experience with the following:

 * 8+ years of professional experience with a degree in a relevant field and proven track record in professional software engineering
 * Mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS
 * Experienced at designing clean, usable REST APIs and integrating with partner systems
 * Strong understanding of how to apply security and data privacy principles within your specific engineering domain
 * DevOps and SRE experience maintaining a production environment
 * Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, and Python experience is a plus
 * Energy industry or climate tech experience is a plus
 * Authorized to work in the US
 * Compensation is 180 - 200k

## Description

As a Staff Backend Engineer at Sense, you'll use your expertise to expand the capabilities of our cloud platform and enable the next generation of new product features. You will be a key contributor and leader maintaining and scaling a high-quality production service. You should be:

 * Focused on delivering functionality that benefits the customer and provides real value
 * Able to partner effectively with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and engineering managers across multiple disciplines.
 * Ready to work with embedded engineers to develop systems that integrate with various hardware platforms.
 * Comfortable working closely with partners and customers to ensure success
 * Excited about high-volume, realtime data and solving the challenges it poses.
 * Interested in building high-availability, performant, and scalable systems.
 * Tenacious when tracking down production issues, digging into metrics and logs as needed to solve problems.
 * Ready to own team projects from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and bug fixing. Complete day-to-day work autonomously and identify gaps in requirements or processes, proactively suggesting improvements.
 * Familiar and comfortable with AI coding practices
 * A strong leader and outspoken advocate for engineering best practices and team collaboration.

Work Model

This position is ideally a hybrid work model, but fully remote candidates will be considered. Our office is in Cambridge, MA and we have a mix of in-person, hybrid and remote employees.


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