Software Engineer (Backend & LLM)
About the role
Backend-focused software engineer role at NewsCatcher, with emphasis on data pipelines, backend systems, and production-ready LLM-driven features.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new data pipelines tailored to a specific project or new product.
- Continuously improve data pipelines to make them more generic and modular, reducing the effort required for subsequent integrations.
- Write, optimise and refactor prompts and prompt-related pipelines.
- Conduct thorough testing and validation of data pipelines to ensure accuracy and consistency of data.
- Ensure pipelines are optimized for performance, scalability, and reusability to facilitate future projects.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in B2B SaaS as Backend / Software / Data Engineer
- Strong systems thinker with attention to performance and scalability
- Comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience shipping LLM-based functionality into production
- Able to move from prototype → stable, maintainable architecture
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Up to 24 days of vacation & 16 days of sick leave/holidays (all fully paid)
- One meeting-free day per week
- Co-working Budget
- Training Budget
- We provide all the necessary equipment to work comfortably and efficiently from home.
- Yearly company retreats (2025 — Portugal, 2024 — Canary Islands, 2023 — French Alpes)
About NewsCatcher
We transform public web data into live signals that power search,…
NewsCatcher collects multi-language news data from 140,000+ sources and over 1.5 million articles daily, enriches every item and delivers only the signals a client cares about—already mapped to their data models, tools, and security requirements. Alongside news, we also cover signals from municipal, government, regulatory, and corporate sources. Today, risk departments, policy teams, product strategists, and AI researchers rely on NewsCatcher to surface mission‑critical events in seconds and keep them embedded in workflows for years.