Backend Engineer - Data, Web Scraping, Integrations (Work From Home)

                Persona is the company top startups use to hire people from all around the world. Our vision is a future where each person can find the best role for them and companies can discover the world’s best talent. Founded by two Stanford University graduates, Persona works with the world’s fastest-growing technology startups. Our clients are funded by some of the world’s top investors, like Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Persona is a talent agency that recruits, trains, and staffs talented remote professionals such as yourself. This is an opportunity to work closely with the future Googles, Facebooks, and Amazons of the world—building out their organizations and helping them reach the next level of success.

We support everyone we hire with training, mentoring, and technology resources so they are enabled to do their best and are as happy as possible in their roles. We have a large international team dedicated to supporting and taking care of new Persona team members, and our goal is to provide excellent long-term career opportunities for everyone who joins the team.

Who’s building Persona?
We are a global team of passionate problem solvers who love to build new things and make our customers happy. Our team is made up of motivated, hard-working people spanning the globe, united by a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer with a strong background in data engineering, web scraping, and systems integration to help power a data-rich, AI-enabled platform. This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable building resilient scraping pipelines, integrating with third-party APIs, and architecting scalable backends that support real-time analytics and large-scale data flows.

The ideal candidate brings 4–5+ years of backend experience, is fluent in Node.js and AWS, and thrives in environments where precision, scalability, and speed matter. You should have a builder’s mindset, a passion for clean and efficient systems, and the ability to think holistically about how backend architecture supports both product functionality and business objectives.
You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including machine learning, product, and frontend engineering—to drive the backend components of systems that power automation, fraud detection, and global commerce infrastructure.

Responsibilities—what you'll do:

Data Extraction & Web Scraping
- Build systems to scrape external websites for structured and unstructured data.
- Automate data pipelines for ingestion, cleaning, and storage.
- Ensure scrapers are scalable, resilient to layout changes, and compliant with applicable policies.

API Integrations & Ingestion Systems
- Build integrations with third-party APIs (KYC/KYB, fraud, merchant data, etc.) such as coresignal, newsapi and google reviews api
- Handle authentication, retries, rate limits, and robust error handling.
- Build integrations with Railz by FIS to integrate into ERP and accounting systems such as Quickbooks, Xero and Netsuite.
- Normalize and store data efficiently for downstream systems.

LLM-Based System Development
- Support the development of internal LLM engines for automation, fraud scoring, or data analysis.
- Build backend components that feed structured data to AI models.
- Collaborate with machine learning teams on data preparation.

Backend & Infrastructure Development
- Utilize Node.js and AWS to develop and deploy highly scalable and performant backend services that can handle large traffic volumes and complex data operations.
- Design efficient data models, manage relational and NoSQL databases, and optimise queries to ensure data consistency, integrity, and performance across distributed systems.
- Architect and implement robust data pipelines to ingest, process, and store large datasets, enabling real-time analytics and seamless data flow across systems.
- Work closely with frontend teams to integrate backend services with Next.js applications, ensuring seamless communication between the backend and user-facing components for a smooth full-stack experience.

Requirements:
- 4–5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong experience with Node.js, AWS, REST APIs, and backend architecture.
- Experience scraping websites and handling large-scale data ingestion.
- Experience storing, normalising, and querying large data sets.
- Experience with connecting financial services APIs and cleaning data sets
- Fully fluent in English
- Ability to commit long-term and full-time
- This position is for serious, career-oriented candidates

Preferred:
- Experience integrating with fintech, e-commerce, or payment platforms.
- Exposure to LLM integrations or AI model pipelines.
- Knowledge of Python for data-heavy tasks is a plus (not mandatory).

What we offer:
- Best salaries in the industry
- Permanent ability to work from anywhere in the world
- Opportunities for growth and advancement
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Warm and friendly company culture
- Full benefits

Benefits at Persona:
- Health insurance
- Unlimited paid time off (paid sick and vacation leaves)
- Annual bonuses based on performance
- Monthly tech allowance
- Opportunity to be paid in your currency of choice
- Others depending on seniority

This is a full-time and long-term role, dedicated exclusively to serving one of our clients. We are looking for individuals who are ready to fully commit their time and energy to one company and grow and develop along with that company. All roles at Persona are 100% work-from-anywhere (work from home or wherever it suits you best). If this is your first time working for a U.S. company, that’s okay; we provide guidance and assistance getting set up as a remote professional. Once hired, we will carefully match you to a client company of ours that perfectly suits your career background, skills, and goals.

In case you or any exceptional people you know are exploring other roles, our rapidly growing company is also looking for new team members with backgrounds in administration, bookkeeping, accounting, finance, project management, operations, recruiting, human resources, content writing, social media management, research, executive assistance, customer service, customer support, technical support, data management, video editing, sales, account management, marketing, and design.

Visit our website for more information: https://www.personatalent.com/