Senior Back End Developer

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November 25

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Thematic

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Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • B2B

Thematic is an AI-powered platform that specializes in transforming customer feedback into actionable insights. It organizes and analyzes large volumes of unstructured feedback to help organizations understand and improve customer experiences, product features, or employee satisfaction. Thematic’s powerful feedback analytics tool provides organizations with clear, quantifiable insights from customer feedback, helping them identify key issues and prioritize changes effectively. Its capabilities include sentiment analysis, theme tagging, and integration with other data sources to provide comprehensive insights quickly and efficiently.

11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Design, build and maintain the infrastructure and services that power our AI product and platform. • Collaborate with product, data engineering, and research teams to transform ideas into scalable features. • Write clean, maintainable code that meets reliability, scalability and performance standards. • Use AI engineering tools (code generation, data pipelines, model deployment) to accelerate development without sacrificing discipline. • Drive engineering best practices: CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and performance optimization. • Mentor and support fellow engineers; contribute to team culture and tech direction. • Make a tangible impact from day one: you’ll play a key role in building the core infrastructure and product architecture. • Operate in a small but powerful engineering team. Your ideas, code, and decisions will matter. • Work on a real and useful AI product. Not a prototype. You will help take AI models out of the lab and into meaningful real-world features. • Learn and grow: leverage cutting-edge AI and dev tools, stay ahead of the curve, and help shape our engineering practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level engineer (5+ years experience or equivalent) with a strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals: algorithms, systems design, APIs, data systems. • Deep experience in backend, infrastructure, microservices or cloud-native environments. • Comfortable working fully remotely: you have done it, enjoyed it, and can excel without a day in a traditional office. • Demonstrated experience using AI-adjacent tools: code automation, model deployment, data pipelines, large-scale services. • You bring a “traditional engineering mindset” while embracing the latest tools to create fast, efficient, robust outcomes. • Excellent communicator and collaborator because remote requires strong self-management, clear communication and accountability. • Passionate about building products people get value from • 4 or more years of experience in at least one of the core technologies we use • Backend (Python, Flask) • AWS Infrastructure (ECS, Batch, Lambda, monitoring, compliance) • Uses AI tools, and has (or wants to) build AI systems • Experience working in a remote environment with a distributed team • Based in New Zealand with a right to work here • Enjoy continuously learning and growing • Experience building SaaS products • Working in a small company • Appreciation for understanding and translating what the customer wants • Familiar with code-generation tools and AI-assisted development.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours: trust-based autonomy, not micromanagement. • Equity (ESOP) • Flexible working hours / working arrangement • Monthly 'remote work' stipend of NZD 400 to spend as you want • Salary Range: $160k-$175k NZD