Senior Backend Engineer

Location: New York

Job Summary
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Merciv is an AI and data analytics startup focused on transforming how organizations harness data for strategic decisions. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build core systems that process massive volumes of enterprise data in real-time, ensuring the platform scales reliably for Fortune 500 clients.

Responsibilities
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• Design, build, and scale backend services using Go and Python that power autonomous retail intelligence for enterprise clients

• Architect data ingestion and processing pipelines that handle millions of data points across internal and external sources

• Build and maintain APIs that serve our agentic AI platform, supporting real-time decision-making at enterprise scale

• Collaborate with ML/AI engineers to integrate predictive and prescriptive models into production workflows

• Own system reliability (design for fault tolerance, observability, and performance under high-throughput conditions)

• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term trajectory of our platform

• Mentor junior engineers and establish backend engineering best practices as we scale

Qualifications
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Required
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• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building systems at enterprise scale

• Deep proficiency in Go and/or Python, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and microservices architecture

• Experience with both SQL and No

SQL databases; comfortable with data processing at scale

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.

• Strong understanding of system design principles (you can architect solutions that balance performance, scalability, and maintainability)

• Passionate about clean, well-tested, maintainable code

• You thrive in fast-paced environments and are energized by hard, ambiguous problems

Preferred
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• Experience with graph and/or vector databases

• Familiarity with RAG architectures and the broader GenAI landscape

• Experience with real-time data processing and streaming technologies

• Understanding of ML/AI concepts, particularly in forecasting and NLP

Company
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Merciv is a technology company that combines AI and human insight to help businesses observe and act upon relevant signals in their data. Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.