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# Software Engneer Backend

- **Company:** North Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Data Files, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, Backend, Production Code
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/software-engneer-backend-san-francisco-ca--964d0b27-558c-4e09-a4ae-cd2a13046add

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Training/Teaching, Data Sets, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software as a Service (SaaS), Algorithms, Engineering, Problem Solving Skills, Internet Application, As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for building the backend APIs, a user-friendly web app powered by our data-centric ML algorithms.Candidate requirements1 - 10 years of experience software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. We just want really bright engineers, and believe they can learn any new tech stack in a week.__Nice-to-havesExperience running production code in cloud environments, solving problems at scale.Deep understanding of both open-source libraries, frameworks, and systems, and experience deciding when to build from scratch vs use existing solutions.Strong software engineering & data platform architecture and engineering skills. You have likely built significant backend distributed systems.CS degree from a top university (MIT, Ivy League, Stanford, UC Berkeley etc).Able to work in-office with the team in San Francisco at least 3 days a week.Previous experience at a top-tier tech company or startup.Strong experience
with Python beyond scripting (most of our Backend is written in Python).Strong AWS development experience. Not "just" setting up infra, but also writing apps/services using the infra.Solid understanding of current and future cloud offerings and risks related to security, privacy, data ingestion, processing, and storage.

## Description

Our Client mission is to democratize safe, trustworthy, and reliable AI. We believe the most promising path to such AI follows a data-centric approach. We build open-source algorithms and no-code SaaS solutions based on our research to help individuals and teams systematically and algorithmically curate high-quality datasets, which enables AI systems to train reliably on real-world messy and error-prone data.