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Senior Backend Engineer, Document Ingestion

Job in Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, 94061, USA
Listing for: Salt Digital Recruitment
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-20
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps, Python
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 220000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 220000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

About the Company

Our client, a well-funded Series A AI and computer vision startup, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing. The role is heavily focused on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability, with significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.

About the Role

Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing, with a heavy focus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, scalability, and significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.

Responsibilities
  • Own a critical data ingestion platform, including OCR, document classification, embeddings, and AI/CV processing.
  • Focus on distributed systems, workflow orchestration, reliability, and scalability.
  • Take significant ownership over their Temporal architecture.
  • Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure.
  • Build durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems.
Qualifications

Must be eligible to work in the US

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience
  • 3+ years of Python
  • Strong production experience with Temporal
  • Solid distributed systems fundamentals
  • Strong AWS experience
  • Experience operating and debugging production systems
Preferred Skills
  • Experience with Python, Temporal, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis
  • Experience with distributed systems and long-running workflows
  • Experience with OCR, document processing, embeddings, and AI/CV pipelines
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure
  • Experience building durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems
Comp

Comp: $180-220K base + equity

Location

Hybrid, 2 days onsite in Redwood City

Equal Opportunity Statement

Information about equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusivity was not provided in the original job description.

Additional Details
  • Python, Temporal, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis
  • Distributed systems and long-running workflows
  • OCR, document processing, embeddings, and AI/CV pipelines
  • Docker, Kubernetes, and production infrastructure
  • Building durable, fault-tolerant, highly scalable systems
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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