Backend Engineer
AssetWatch, Inc.
$120,000–$155,000
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining serverless data infrastructure for a condition monitoring platform. Day-to-day work involves developing Python-based microservices and APIs on AWS, managing infrastructure via Terraform, optimizing MySQL and DynamoDB databases, and improving CI/CD pipelines and alerting systems. Suits engineers with solid AWS serverless and SQL experience who are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and cross-team collaboration.
Senior level · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $120,000–$155,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,750–16,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled without a seniority level ('Data Services Engineer' or similar backend engineer), but the breadth of responsibilities — on-call rotation, code reviews, guiding other teams, complex cloud architecture ownership — supports a Senior classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily backend software development (15-1252), but has a meaningful data infrastructure and pipeline focus that could also fit Database Architects (15-1243). The day-to-day emphasis on building microservices, APIs, and serverless functions tips it toward Software Developers.
Jira is listed in the qualifications section alongside Git and CI/CD as part of 'Agile practices (Jira)'; it is included as a required skill per its placement in the requirements block, though in practice it is a process tool rather than a hard technical gate.
Sentry is mentioned in the responsibilities section as an alerting system to monitor and manage, not in the qualifications block — marked as preferred accordingly.
AWS IoT Core and time series databases appear explicitly under 'Preferred Qualifications' — marked as preferred.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in CS, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; no equivalent-experience substitution is offered, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
The salary range ($120,000–$155,000/year) is stated as a US base range; the role is remote-first with team members across the US and Ontario, Canada.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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