Backend Software Engineer

The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. We're seeking a Backend Engineer who's passionate about building robust data pipelines integrating with third-party APIs and working with large-scale data infrastructure. Ideally you're performance-minded and have experience with modern ETL patterns workflow orchestration engines and building API clients. This is a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency: where you can help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them.

If this sounds exciting we'd love to hear from you!

What you'll do:

- Build and maintain data pipelines for storage transformation and export

- Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira GitHub GitLab incident management tools AI coding assistants etc.)

- Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services

- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform

- Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing

- Design and implement data export pipelines

- Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development

- Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization

- Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues

About you:

- You know how to build and scale data pipelines

- You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience

- You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs

- You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation or similar)

- You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect Airflow Dagster)

- You are great at asking questions figuring out what needs to be done building consensus and executing

- You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution

- You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others

- You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team

- Located in EST or CST time zone

Bonus points if:

- You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it

- You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures

- You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira GitHub GitLab CI/CD systems)

- You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude Copilot etc.)

- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great but humility a performance-driven attitude and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must.

Occasional travel may be required.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Let’s talk about us!
This is all about you but you want to know a little about us. Jellyfish enables leaders to effectively build AI-integrated engineering teams align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software efficiently and on time. AI tools alone won’t transform your org—Jellyfish shows you what’s working what’s not and how to build high-performing teams that know how to use AI the right way.

What We Do

Jellyfish is the leading Software Engineering Intelligence Platform helping more than 500 companies including DraftKings Keller Williams and Blue Yonder leverage Al to transform how they build software. By turning fragmented data into context-rich guidance Jellyfish enables better decision-making across Al use adoption planning developer experience and delivery so R&D teams can deliver stronger business outcomes.

Why Work With Us

Are you fueled by innovation and energized by challenges? At Jellyfish every day is a chance to make an impact and do the work that matters most. We solve meaningful challenges that shape how engineering organizations operate. We are committed to cultivating a Jellyverse where everyone can do their best work creating a place where we all thrive.

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