Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions to innovate and drive progress at S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Kensho's solutions and research focus on business and financial generative AI applications, agents, data retrieval APIs, data extraction, and much more. The Emergence team develops systems enabling the use of cutting-edge ML technology in our customer’s workflows, focusing on building solutions that seamlessly connect S&P's proprietary data with LLM-based systems, empowering customers with reliable, innovative, and trustworthy experiences. This specific role is for a Senior Backend Engineer working on our PDF document processing platform, Extract.
Requirements
- At least five years of direct experience developing customer-facing APIs within a team
- Experience developing RESTful APIs using a variety of tools
- Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans
- Experience working across many stages of the software development lifecycle
- Sound reasoning about the behavior and performance of loosely-coupled systems
- Proficiency with algorithms (including time and space complexity analysis), data structures, and software architecture
- At least one domain of demonstrable technical depth
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and improve software
- Work with key stakeholders to develop system architectures, API specifications, implementation requirements, and complexity estimates
- Test assumptions through instrumentation and prototyping
- Promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship
- develop reliable, secure, and performant APIs that apply Kensho’s AI capabilities to specific customer workflows
- develop systems enabling the use of cutting-edge ML technology in our customer’s workflows
- building solutions that seamlessly connect S&P's proprietary data with LLM-based systems
Other
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Thoughtful and efficient communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Your verbal and written communication is proactive, efficient, and inclusive of your geographically-distributed colleagues.
- You are a thoughtful, deliberate technologist and share your knowledge generously.
- flexibility-first, and give our employees the opportunity to work from where they feel most productive and engaged (must be in the United States).
- there may be times when travel to one of our Kensho hubs (e.g., Cambridge, MA or NYC) will be required for team meetings or company events.
