Job Title: Staff Backend Engineer Company Name: Standard AI Job Url: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4370457809&f_AL=true&f_TPR=r30000&f_WT=2&keywords=software%20engineer&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_JOB_FILTER&start=400 Job Description: Staff Backend Engineer (REMOTE) Standard AI · United States (Remote) Easy Apply Save Save Staff Backend Engineer (REMOTE)  at Standard AI Show more options Your profile is missing required qualifications Show match details Help me update my profile BETA Is this information helpful? Get personalized tips to stand out to hirers Find jobs where you’re a top applicant and tailor your resume with the help of AI. Try Premium for PKR0 About the job Staff Backend Engineer (Remote) Reports to: VP of Engineering Location: Remote Salary Range: $185-205K Company Overview: Standard AI is a U.S.-based technology company founded in 2017, with a globally distributed team across the U.S. and Europe. We empower retailers to decode shopper behavior and drive growth. Through our VISION Analytics Platform, we provide real-time insights into how customers interact with products, media, and promotions. With our newly launched Visual Engagement Score, we are bringing digital-level engagement metrics to the physical retail world. About the Role: We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for the systems powering our computer vision analytics platform. This is a FULL TIME REMOTE role for candidates located anywhere in the United States. You will act as a technical strategist, moving beyond tactical execution to manage the inherent complexity of a high-scale computer vision platform. You’ll partner with machine learning, infrastructure, and application teams to design the resilient microservices, build data models, and establish integrations necessary to turn raw data into real-time retail insights. What you'll do here: Act as a technical lead by making critical architectural decisions, setting engineering standards, and removing roadblocks to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions. Design and implement the services, jobs, and APIs that support both our internal and external product suites. Build and deploy solutions for monitoring, tracing, and debugging services in production to ensure our code remains scalable and reliable. Iterate quickly on experimental systems to solve real user problems Proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in our services Elevate the entire engineering organization by mentoring junior engineers and establishing best practices for cloud-based microservices. Who you are: You have 8+ years of experience in backend focused engineering roles (or equivalent). You have experience in Python (or similar) with extensive experience building services, REST APIs, message queues. You have designed schemas using a range of data stores (SQL, BigQuery, in-memory, etc), and can evaluate the tradeoffs between them effectively. You have experience with cloud platforms and cloud based services (we use GCP). You solve complex problems efficiently - sometimes by writing code, but also by knowing when not to write code. You take pride in "elegant" architecture that is as maintainable as it is scalable, and you ensure quality through automated testing and rigorous monitoring. You enjoy making others better through thoughtful code reviews and high-level design discussions. Standard AI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.