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# Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

- **Company:** APIPHANY CORPORATION
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, Data Visualization, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, ReactJS, System Availability, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Web Api
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-9092AE8CBC7A922735/

## About the Role

* 3-5+ years of experience designing and building distributed Back End services in Python (async, data pipelines, APIs)
 * Experience building data-heavy, high-throughput systems with a focus on latency, performance, and reliability
 * Proven ability to build and maintain RESTful APIs for large-scale applications
 * Hands-on experience with cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
 * Experience building integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS tools, and enterprise applications
 * Experience with CI/CD, observability, and testing frameworks

Bonus Skills

 * Frontend experience with React/TypeScript (full-stack exposure)
 * Infrastructure familiarity: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
 * Background in data visualization dashboards (D3, visx, or equivalent)

Personality & Values:

 * Startup mindset: bias toward action, rapid iteration, and ownership
 * Mission-driven and customer-obsessed
 * Self-motivated, collaborative, and eager to raise the bar for the whole team
 * Passion for building secure, reliable, and scalable systems that empower product innovation

## Description

As a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer at Apiphany, you'll design, build, and scale the core systems that power our intelligence platform. You'll own Back End low-latency services and APIs that handle massive engineering data streams, ensure security and compliance, and architect systems for high availability and performance. You'll also help shape long-term architecture, mentor teammates, and establish engineering best practices for scaling Back End services to deliver high-performance and reliable applications.


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