Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anadyr Horizon is a venture-backed company focused on building the world's first Simulation Intelligence platform. They are seeking a Junior Backend Software Engineer to help build and maintain the core infrastructure for their simulation platform, utilizing AI tools and ensuring high-quality software development.
Responsibilities
- Designing and maintaining the REST APIs powering our simulation platform and user interface
- Building backend services using Python, FastAPI, and related technologies
- Maintaining and extending our simulation engine
- Writing shared libraries used across multiple components of the platform
- Developing internal tools that improve engineering and research workflows
- Starting, monitoring, debugging, and optimizing simulation runs
- Maintaining the datasets and services our simulations depend on
- Improving reliability, observability, and performance of our AWS-hosted infrastructure
- Participating in code reviews and helping raise the engineering standards across the company
Skills
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong Python fundamentals from professional experience
- Experience building backend applications using FastAPI or Flask
- Experience designing and implementing REST APIs
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
- Experience with Git in collaborative development environments
- Knowledge of Linux system administration via CLI
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, debugging, and software design principles
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Unrestricted U.S. work authorization
- PostgreSQL performance optimization
- Docker and containerized development
- CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with AWS services
- Scientific computing
- Data engineering
- Simulation platforms
- Machine learning infrastructure
Benefits
- Equity participation
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Remote-first work environment
- Flexible paid time off
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