
About Alembic
Transforming marketing insights with AI-driven analytics
Key Highlights
- Raised $169.1 million in Series A funding
- Headquartered in SoMa, San Francisco, CA
- Employs advanced mathematics for marketing attribution
- Analyzes marketing campaigns across multiple channels
Alembic, headquartered in SoMa, San Francisco, CA, specializes in AI-enabled predictive analytics for marketing attribution. The company leverages advanced mathematics and AI techniques, initially developed for pandemic-related research, to analyze marketing effectiveness across channels like TV, ra...
🎁 Benefits
Alembic offers competitive equity options, generous PTO, and a flexible remote work policy to support work-life balance. Employees also benefit from a...
🌟 Culture
Alembic fosters a data-driven culture focused on innovation in marketing analytics. The company values transparency and collaboration, empowering team...
Skills & Technologies
Overview
Alembic is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and operate their backend platform for Fortune 500 clients. You'll work with technologies like Java and APIs to build scalable systems that process massive marketing datasets. This position requires 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
Job Description
Who you are
5+ years of backend engineering experience building production systems at scale — you've owned services from design through deployment and have tackled complex distributed systems challenges. You possess deep expertise in Java and have a strong understanding of APIs, database optimization, and data processing pipelines. Your experience includes architecting systems that can handle significant growth in data volume and customer workloads, ensuring high reliability and performance.
You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with frontend engineers to design clean and efficient API contracts. You are passionate about establishing backend engineering best practices and enjoy mentoring other engineers on your team. You are adaptable and comfortable in an early-stage startup setting, where projects and priorities can shift based on the team's goals.
What you'll do
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Alembic, you will design and build scalable backend services and APIs that process massive marketing datasets with high reliability. You will architect distributed systems capable of handling 10x growth in data volume and customer workloads, ensuring that our systems remain robust and efficient. Your role will involve optimizing database performance and data models to support complex analytical queries at scale, transforming raw marketing data into actionable insights.
You will collaborate with frontend engineers to create clean, efficient API contracts that enhance the user experience. Additionally, you will establish backend engineering best practices, guiding the team in implementing these standards. Your technical ownership will allow you to influence the direction of our backend platform, making a significant impact on how Fortune 100 companies make multimillion-dollar decisions.
What we offer
At Alembic, you will be part of a team that is dedicated to solving marketing's hardest problems through innovative technology. We offer a dynamic work environment where you can take on significant technical challenges and contribute to the development of trusted systems used by leading companies. You will have the opportunity to work alongside top engineers and be part of a mission-driven organization that values collaboration and growth.
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