Backend Engineer (Core/Studio)
About the Company
Why We Built Lyric: Supply chains are more critical and complex than ever. Every day, large enterprises navigate trillions of possible decisions that could impact the bottom line. Powerful algorithms and AI can address these problems, yet most organizations struggle to leverage supply chain AI at scale. The current SCM technologies are either rigid, limited-scope point solutions or custom solutions built in-house, which demand immense expertise and investment.
That is…until now.
Enter Lyric: Lyric is an enterprise AI platform built specifically for supply chains, offering the best of both worlds:
Out-of-the-box AI solutions for optimizing networks, allocating inventory, scheduling routes, planning fulfillment capacity, promising orders, propagating demand, building predictions, analyzing scenarios, and more, plus
A platform-first approach that empowers both business and technical users with end-to-end product composability, leveraging no-code tools, their own code, or even forking our code to build and refine supply chain decision intelligence
With Lyric, enterprises no longer have to choose between flexibility and speed—they get both.
The Mission: We’re building a new era in supply chain with the team best equipped to lead it. With over 20 years at the intersection of supply chain and algorithms, we developed a deep conviction that global supply chains needed something like Lyric. Since our inception in December 2021, that conviction has been validated time and time again.
Today, a growing number of Fortune 500 companies, including Smurfit WestRock, Estée Lauder, Coca-Cola, Nike, and more, are innovating on their own terms with Lyric. We can’t wait to see what our customers, both current and future, are empowered to build with us next. Come build with us!
Position Overview: We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to join our growing team at Lyric. As a key member of the Core Backend engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and integrating backend services for our platform, ensuring high availability, stability and scalability for various use cases.
Key Responsibilities
Service Development: Lead the development of backend services, modules and features, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
System Design: Collaborate with product managers, technical architects and frontend engineers to translate designs and requirements into robust REST interfaces, business logic and state management.
Performance Optimization: Optimize existing systems and services to deliver fast, adaptive and fault resistant backends.
Testing and Benchmarking: Build and develop with internal tools and frameworks for comprehensive testing and validation to ensure that delivered solutions meet acceptance criteria
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate services and workloads with other backend services, APIs, and data sources, ensuring performant functionality spanning multiple components
Code Reviews and Mentorship: Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality, consistency, and maintainability, and provide mentorship and guidance to junior members of the Core Backend engineering team.
Continuous Learning: Stay updated on the latest trends and advancements in backend development, and explore new tools and technologies to enhance our development process and improve the quality of our products.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
4+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on at least one programming language Python, NodeJs, Golang
Proficiency in development of REST API services using FastAPI/Django, Express/NestJS, Gin or equivalent server frameworks
Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases to structure and store application metadata such as MySQL, Postgres, RDS or MongoDB
Experience in messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS
Understanding of containerization and container workload orchestration with tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with working on commonly-used Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure and related technologies such as Object storage (e.g., AWS S3) and Container Registry (e.g., AWS ECR)
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), code collaboration tools (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Github Actions/Jenkins)
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.