Senior Backend Engineer - APIs, Data, and Scale

About this role

Jellyfish's engineering team is solving one of the hardest problems in engineering operations: understanding how teams actually organize themselves and deliver work. To help us get there, we're looking for a senior backend engineer who loves untangling complexity and building systems that scale.

You'll join a tight-knit team of senior engineers working to map the real structure of our customers' engineering organizations. Teams don't organize the way org charts suggest. Projects span multiple teams. Dependencies create hidden bottlenecks. Your job is to build the capabilities that let our product represent team configurations as they actually exist. This means finding pragmatic solutions—the right abstractions that capture 80% of the problem. Aspire to handle the complexity, but don't fall into the completionism trap. The goal is customers seeing their organization clearly and understanding how teams are performing and projects are progressing.

This role demands someone who can navigate complicated data models, trace dependencies across systems, and design solutions that are both powerful and maintainable. You'll work with data from project management tools, version control systems, and collaboration platforms to build a complete picture of how engineering work flows through an organization.

The best candidates are senior engineers who get energized by complex technical challenges, care deeply about data modeling and system design, and want to build products that help engineering leaders make better decisions.

Let's talk about what you'll do:

• Design, plan and implement key features as part of a highly effective development team
• Rapidly deliver value for our customers by pushing features to our AWS-hosted SaaS environment daily, with automated CI/CD pipelines
• Provide technical and product expertise within your team and across the organization
• Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
• Participate in your team’s agile process ...