Senior Platform Engineer, Data & AI

Overview

National Debt Relief (NDR) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Data & AI to help build and scale the next generation of our enterprise data and AI platform. This role sits within the Data Engineering organization and will focus on building the application and service layer that powers our Customer Data Platform (CDP), AI products, and operational data systems.

A primary focus of this role will be designing and implementing cloud-native services in AWS that sit in front of core data platforms including PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and other enterprise data systems. These services will support internal applications, customer intelligence initiatives, marketing activation, analytics, and AI-driven products.

While this role will collaborate closely with our ML Ops team and contribute to shared platform initiatives, the primary emphasis is backend platform engineering, API development, and operational data services. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-grade backend systems, cloud-native services, APIs, and data platforms.

Responsibilities: * Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power NDR’s Customer Data Platform and AI ecosystem. * Build secure, high-performance service layers on top of PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and other enterprise data platforms. * Design and implement RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures using Python, FastAPI, and modern backend engineering practices. * Develop cloud-native applications and platform services within AWS using scalable, resilient architectural patterns. * Partner with Data Engineering teams to expose governed data products and operational datasets through reusable platform services. * Collaborate with ML Ops and Data Science teams to support model serving, feature delivery, inference workflows, and AI-powered applications. * Design and implement authentication, authorization, auditing, and governance...