Trellis Technologies - Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Bidding
Requirements
• A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, demonstrating progressive growth and significant hands-on expertise in backend systems development and machine learning engineering • Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with FastAPI is a plus. • Deep understanding and practical experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Exposure to the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring in production. • Experience with MLOps principles and practices. • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). • A “get it done” mindset with the ability to make pragmatic decisions balancing speed, performance, technical debt, and scalability. • Strong communication and collaboration skills. • Why Trellis? Because you deserve a career that’s exciting, meaningful, and surrounded by people who lift you up. • We’re a group of curious, mission-driven humans rewriting the insurance experience and having a lot of fun along the way. At Trellis, you’ll make a real impact on a product millions rely on, and grow alongside a company that’s scaling fast. • What sets Trellis apart: • ✨ A transparent, collaborative culture where ideas win, not titles • 🚀 Big opportunities to take ownership and chart your growth • 💰 Competitive compensation (75th+ percentile) • 🏡 Fully remote across the US & Canada • 🎉 Quarterly virtual and/or in-person events that keep us connected • Plus, the benefits are built to support your whole life: • 🌴 Flexible vacation (yes, actually flexible) • 🩺 100% employer-paid health insurance for employees • 💻 Home office budget to create your perfect setup • 🧘 Wellness programming, because balance matters • 💸 401(k) and HSA contributions, FSAs, bonuses & equity opportunities • 🐣 Paid parental leave • 👉 If you want a role where you’ll grow, be trusted, and build something that genuinely improves people’s lives, Trellis is the place. Join us.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other engineers to deliver impactful solutions. • Integrate services and product features with databases (Cloud SQL, Redis) and messaging queues (Pub/Sub). • Contribute to the development of our MLOps tools for ML models. • Build and optimize large-scale data processing pipelines for feature extraction and data transformation using BigQuery and Dataflow. • Train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor machine learning models on Vertex AI to improve bidding performance. • Stay fast and focused, balancing speed, performance, and scalability to deliver impact.
Benefits
• $180K – $190K • Offers Bonus • We believe in paying competitively for great work. As a remote team, we set our salaries at the 75th percentile of national market data in our industry for our US* and Canadian employees. *US candidates located in NYC or SF are benchmarked at the 90th percentile. You can count on your pay being in line with (or above) the market. We review compensation at least once a year to make sure we’re staying competitive and rewarding our team’s contributions. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please Note: we have set up limits for applications for this role. Candidates may not apply more than 1 time in any 45-day span. We encourage candidates to thoughtfully consider which role you believe you may be the best fit for. If our team determines there could be another fit, different from the role you have most recently applied for, we will be in touch to determine if there is mutual interest. • or drag and drop here • Stanton Sievers • If you could refactor or redesign one system or app you’ve used, what would it be and why? • If you could take any roadtrip, where would you be going? Why? • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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