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Backend Engineer - Extensions

Fundamental· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Backend engineer role focused on developing, productizing, and scaling data science capabilities for Fundamental's Extensions, collaborating with data scientists and R&D to ship production-ready solutions for enterprise use cases.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Extensions capabilities end to end
  • Design and build distributed workflows that are efficient, reproducible, and observable in production
  • Collaborate closely with Data Scientists on the team to deeply understand requirements and translate them into engineering decisions
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring Extensions capabilities meet the latency and throughput demands of enterprise deployments
  • Contribute to architectural decisions around how Extensions integrates with the broader NEXUS backend
  • Write clean, well-tested Python code and hold a high bar for code quality across the team
  • Contribute to internal engineering documentation and help establish best practices for backend development within the team

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong focus on Python
  • Excellent Python skills - you write clean, idiomatic, well-tested code and know the language deeply
  • Solid experience designing and operating distributed systems at production scale
  • Strong understanding of concurrency, task execution, and workflow orchestration patterns
  • Experience building systems that are reproducible, observable, and easy to debug in production
  • Ability to work closely with non-engineering counterparts and translate complex requirements into reliable implementations
  • Strong ownership mindset - you drive work end to end and care about outcomes, not just output

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed systemsConcurrency and workflow orchestrationCollaboration with data scientists

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
  • Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
  • A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action
Last updated Sep 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Fundamental

The Power to Predict

The Power to Predict. Our most powerful Large Tabular Model. Pre-trained on billions of real-world enterprise tables, our model knows which patterns drive which outcomes.

NEXUSOur World’s Most Powerful Large Tabular ModelPre-trained on billions of real-world enterprise tablesEnterprise AIData AnalyticsTime SeriesConfidential ComputingCloud
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