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# Software Engineer II

- **Company:** Sp Global, Inc.
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $175,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software as a Service, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Openapi, Grafana, Backend, Git, Fastapi, Sentry, Production Code, Celery, AWS EKS, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000ghp0c1

## About the Role

As a Backend Software Engineer II on Emergence, you will develop the software behind our reliable, secure, and performant APIs. You will collaborate with colleagues from Machine Learning, Product, and Infrastructure, as well as with other engineers within the Applications team. You have experience deploying production code in highly scalable distributed systems. You are a thoughtful, deliberate technologist and share your knowledge generously., + At least two years of direct experience developing SaaS applications within a team.

 + Thoughtful and efficient communication skills (both verbal and written).

 + Experience developing SaaS application backends and APIs using a variety of tools.

 + Experience working across many stages of the software development lifecycle.

 + Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans.

 + Sound reasoning about the behavior and performance of loosely-coupled systems.

 + Proficiency with algorithms (including time and space complexity analysis), data structures, and software architecture.

Technologies & Tools We Use:

 + FastAPI, Django, Python, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch

 + Git, Jsonnet, Jenkins, AWS EKS

 + Celery, RabbitMQ

 + Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry

## Description

+ Work with key stakeholders to develop system architectures, API specifications, implementation requirements, and complexity estimates.


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