Senior Contract Software Engineer, Data & Platform

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Nimble

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $65M Series B on 2023-03

Consulting • Logistics • Artificial Intelligence

Nimble is a robotic 3PL. We're building a fully autonomous logistics service using next-gen AI robotics so every brand can offer free 2-day or less delivery. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Our iconic board of directors includes famed robotics and AI icons Marc Raibert, Sebastian Thrun, and Fei-Fei Li.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines ingesting messy, high-volume external data • Integrate with third-party platforms and maintain reliable data flows • Identify data quality issues and build systems that fix root causes • Shape architecture for data-intensive products used by state and district leaders • Build and extend services within a service-oriented architecture • Follow team standards for system design, testing, and code quality • Write well-tested, maintainable code • Review others’ work • Simplify and improve systems • Lead complex software projects from design through launch

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building production software, with a track record of leading complex projects from design to launch • Strong data modeling skills • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: queues, retries, idempotency, concurrency, failure modes, and reasoning about them • Experience building services in a service-oriented architecture with clear boundaries and well-defined APIs • Hands-on experience building and operating modern ETL/ELT pipelines and third-party integrations at scale • Strong programming skills in TypeScript and Python • Solid SQL, preferably Postgres, including query performance and indexing • AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, agents, or custom workflows as a core part of development • High bar for code quality; well-tested, readable code; thoughtful reviews; clear and proactive communication, especially asynchronously • Willingness to work ideally 20–30 hours per week with 4–6 hours of overlap with US Central time

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote contract role • Employee trust and flexibility • Fully remote company with rituals and traditions to bond from afar • Accommodations during the hiring process • Potential to convert to full time later

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