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Software Engineer (Backend & LLM)

NewsCatcher · LB / UA / PL / LT / RO / Remote (LB; UA; PL; LT; RO) · Remote

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About NewsCatcher

Turning the web into a structured database of real world events. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

NewsCatcher is hiring a Software Engineer (Backend & LLM) in LB / UA / PL / LT / RO / Remote (LB; UA; PL; LT; RO). The full description is on NewsCatcher's site.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience in B2B SaaS as Backend / Software / Data Engineer
  • Strong systems thinker with attention to performance and scalability
  • Comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience shipping LLM-based functionality into production
  • Able to move from prototype → stable, maintainable architecture
  • Strong Python (including async workloads)
More about this role
  • Design and implement new data pipelines tailored to a specific project or new product.
  • Continuously improve data pipelines to make them more generic and modular, reducing the effort required for subsequent integrations.
  • Write, optimise and refactor prompts and prompt-related pipelines.
  • Conduct thorough testing and validation of data pipelines to ensure accuracy and consistency of data.
  • Ensure pipelines are optimized for performance, scalability, and reusability to facilitate future projects.
  • We want to support people’s enrichment within the CatchAll Tool. Do research on what is available on the market that can help us enrich data, Double-check open databases, and verify whether there is already an existing solution available within the NewsCatcher’s code base. Plan and design the pipeline. Build a prototype and demo it to the whole team. Proceed to, test on Dev, write test cases around. Deploy on Prod, get feedback and improve.
  • One of the users complained about a job being stuck. Debug the pipeline, try to understand where the problem comes from: promts, code, database. Find the issue and prepare a fix. Test it within the whole pipeline on Dev. Break some pipeline,...

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