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# Staff Backend Engineer

- **Company:** CERVIN & SHAH, P.C.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Data Transformation, Cursor, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Github, Python (Programming Language), Network Security, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Node.Js, Pair Programming, TypeScript, Web Applications, Datadog, Pulumi, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Claude Code, Snowflake, Technical Debt, Backend, Data Analytics, Data Management, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.nettemps.com/us/en/WB4966A188B47E8E23A.ntap

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript.
 * Experience designing, deploying and operating distributed services on AWS or GCP in production, using the best components for the job.
 * Experience moving, ingesting, and transforming data at scale.
 * Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features.
 * Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate.
 * Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development.
 * Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
 * The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work.
 * You are versed in infrastructure as code (IaC), preferably with Pulumi.
 * You know a thing or two about network security and protecting production applications.
 * Strong drive to proliferate best practices in your areas of expertise.
 * You build in the open, and encourage others who are interested in your areas of work.

Our stack:

 * Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
 * Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
 * Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
 * Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor/Claude Code

## Description

Data-driven marketers have plenty of tools to optimize their digital ad spend and verify that their ads showed where they were supposed to. We build the same kinds of tools, but for data-driven event marketers, who've previously been limited to scanning conference badges at their booth.

We're growing, and looking for Staff Software Engineers to ship critical features and drive key infrastructure changes.

This is a Full time role based in NYC, reporting directly to our Head of Engineering. It's hybrid, 3-4 days a week in our NYC office depending on your location.

As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you will help shape the technical strategy for our products and systems.
What You'll Do

 * Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application.
 * Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions.
 * Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and Front End engineers.
 * Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics.
 * Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product.
 * Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices.
 * Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
 * Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery.