Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Senior backend engineering roles in SaaS increasingly sit at the intersection of product analytics, integrations, and platform reliability, and this position is a clear example. The remit centers on building data pipelines and connecting to widely used third-party systems, a common pattern for SaaS products that must ingest and normalize operational data from many external sources.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable expertise in the mechanics that underpin subscription software: repeatable ETL, workflow orchestration for batch and near real time processing, and infrastructure as code. Experience designing API clients and export pipelines also translates well across SaaS categories, since integrations and data portability are frequent customer requirements and a meaningful driver of retention.
This role tends to suit engineers who like owning end to end data movement rather than focusing solely on application endpoints. It will fit professionals who enjoy balancing performance considerations with pragmatic delivery, and who are comfortable collaborating across product and engineering to clarify what data should exist, where it should live, and how it should be consumed.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively. We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who's passionate about building robust data pipelines, integrating with third-party APIs, and working with large-scale data infrastructure. Ideally, you're performance-minded and have experience with modern ETL patterns, workflow orchestration engines, and building API clients. This is a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency: where you can help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them.
If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you!
What you'll do:
- Build and maintain data pipelines for storage, transformation and export
- Develop integrations with third-party tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, incident management tools, AI coding assistants, etc.)
- Create and maintain API clients to ingest data from external services
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Build workflow orchestration for near-real-time and batch data processing
- Design and implement data export pipelines
- Develop internal tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate internal development
- Provide technical expertise within your team and across the organization
- Communicate effectively about project status and technical issues
About you:
- You know how to build and scale data pipelines
- You are a strong programmer with extensive Python experience
- You have experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs
- You're comfortable with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- You have familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing
- You consider both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution
- You love learning new things and sharing knowledge with others
- You have strong communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team
- Located in EST or CST time zone
Bonus points if:
- You have worked at a rapidly scaling startup before and loved it
- You have experience with Delta Lake and lakehouse architectures
- You've built integrations with developer tools (Jira, GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD systems)
- You have experience with AI/LLM tool integrations (Claude, Copilot, etc.)
- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use
A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great, but humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must.
Occasional travel may be required.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Let’s talk about us!
This is all about you, but you want to know a little about us. Jellyfish enables leaders to effectively build AI-integrated engineering teams, align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software efficiently and on time. AI tools alone won’t transform your org—Jellyfish shows you what’s working, what’s not, and how to build high-performing teams that know how to use AI the right way.
