Staff Backend Engineer

Who We Are At Osmo

Osmo is a digital olfaction company, on a mission to give computers a sense of smell to improve the health and wellbeing of human life. Why? Our sense of smell both enriches and saves lives, and has a deep and direct connection to our emotions and memory. This foundational understanding of smell's impact has directly informed the development of our latest innovation: Generation.

Generation is a new kind of fragrance house powered by Olfactory Intelligence (OI) to blend AI with world-class perfumery. It will help brands create emotionally resonant scents faster, more accessibly, and with greater creative clarity. Our technology allows us to explore vast scent possibilities, discover novel ingredients, and design fragrances informed by both data and artistry.

Beyond fragrance, Olfactory Intelligence has applications across industries including manufacturing, security, medicine, and more. We believe in the power of automation and thoughtfully applied AI/ML to solve problems beyond the reach of human intuition alone. Osmo is headquartered in New York, NY, with a new facility in New Jersey, and offices in Somerville, MA.

Osmo is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer, to drive the development of our user-facing APIs and applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems
• Architect, design, and implement robust and scalable backend systems and data models.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization (incl. engineering, product, design, and operations)
• Elevate our code quality and engineering efficiency and serve as a mentor to engineers across Osmo’s software teams.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of engineering experience building high-reliability systems.
• 2 years experience in leading teams and setting the technical direction on user-facing products, including writing technical specifications
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Python, Typescript, Go, etc.)
• Experience working with both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Bigtable), with a solid understanding of data modeling and query optimization.
• Ability to gather requirements, work across multi-discipline teams, and communicate trade offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements
  
  

Ways to stand out

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code
• Experience in building and scaling access control systems in multi-tenant environments
• Interested in learning about olfaction
  
  

If this role inspires you we’d encourage you to apply. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining an incredible team optimized for a diversity of thought, background, and approaches. All employment decisions and responsibilities are determined based on current ability and your ability to grow, without regard to race, color, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, marital status, physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Osmo does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Osmo or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Osmo Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Osmo and Osmo will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.