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Techstars - Backend Engineer

Remote2d ago

Requirements

• Solid experience building and maintaining data pipelines — ETL/ELT, data ingestion, transformation, and delivery to downstream consumers • Proficiency with PostgreSQL: schema design, migrations, query optimization, data modeling • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (AWS EKS a plus), including familiarity with Helm, kubectl, and debugging workloads • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (OpenTofu, Terraform) • Strong Python skills for data engineering, scripting, and automation • Strong understanding of agentic development in a team environment • Familiarity with AWS services (S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, and related tooling) • A DevOps mindset: you care about observability (Prometheus/Grafana experience a plus), reliability, and what happens after code ships • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills — you can work from symptoms to root cause on unfamiliar systems • Experience working in agile development environments with a product team • Strong communication skills — you work well across teams and can explain technical tradeoffs clearly • Experience with Salesforce data structures and CRM-adjacent integrations • Knowledge of financial or investment data (venture capital, startup portfolio management) • Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow or similar) • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript for backend services • Prior work at a startup, accelerator, or investment firm

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve data across Techstars systems — including Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIs • Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Helm, OpenTofu, Github Actions), including deployment tooling, secrets management, and cluster health • Partner with our senior security engineer on infrastructure reliability — incident response, observability, and proactive improvements to keep things stable • Maintain and improve our PostgreSQL database layer: schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity • Support Salesforce data flows and integrations with our broader platform • Build and maintain internal tooling and integrations that connect third-party SaaS tools to Techstars OS • Contribute to engineering standards: CI/CD practices, testing, code review, documentation • Work in an agile team environment with a product backlog, sprints, and regular delivery to production