Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
Company: Termina
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: October 31, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Termina's goal is to accumulate first-party data
for all Venture-backed companies in the world. Private-Markets
investment decisions happen in the dark, uninformed, and in many
cases without objective systems of measure. We are optimistic that
by assembling the world's largest dataset of venture-backed
companies, Investors and Executives will dramatically improve their
decision making using Termina's Quantitative Diligence. Termina was
incubated as the initial diligence technology at Tribe Capital, a
$1.9B venture fund, and is also backed by Sequoia's Scout program,
X&, and Trenches Capital. We have largely bootstrapped through
our early growth, and we are profitable. Some recent projects
involving our engineering team: Using LLMs to auto-label data and
ingest it to our ETLs Supporting Kraken's $1.5B acquisition of
Ninjatrader Onboarding new clients including a $20B family office
and supporting/enhancing their workflows We’re hiring a
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to build scalable systems that model
product-market fit and power high-stakes decision-making for top
Venture Investors. You’ll tackle the unique challenge of creating
infrastructure to ingest all data from all startups. If you’re
excited by high-impact, performance-driven engineering, join us to
build the future of investing. An Opportunity to Architect
Large-Scale Data and Backend Infrastructure Engineer core pillars
of our multi-interface data application from scratch. Manage a
sophisticated array of data APIs and data infrastructure with an
unwavering passion for high-leverage deployment patterns and IAC.
Create new products leveraging AI and LLMs to unlock new interfaces
with, and understanding of, the unique datasets that Termina is
accumulating. Conceive of and / or implement novel ways of
distributed systems management, and high-scale data processing and
retrieval. About You An obsession with automation and getting into
the weeds. Bulletproof backend software engineering foundations,
and perpetually learning new frameworks to unseat the old. The
ability to make cut-through infrastructure and data processing
decisions that scale. A Passion for new AI technologies and
startups. 5-7 years of experience, though we are flexible. Our
Stack Today Python for backend and data processing. Current key
frameworks are fastapi, pandas, ray, dagster and sqlalchemy. A
variety of LLMs in our development process and data processing
logic. GCP is our main base of operations, utilizing GKE, BigQuery,
BigTable, artifacts, and so on. “No clicking mentality” with
Terraform / terragrunt, Helm, and Skaffold, GitHub actions, Datadog
for our CI / CD deployment, lifecycle management, and
observability. Location Candidates must be located in the San
Francisco Bay Area, or Greater Toronto Area and be willing to
travel on a monthly basis to the Bay Area for team offsites.
Keywords: Termina, Santa Clara , Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Santa Clara, California
