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S&P Global

Software Engineering Manager, Backend Development (Python)

AI summary of the role

Lead a team of software engineers building Kensho's GenAI platform, LLM-powered applications, and foundational AI toolkits (e.g., Kensho Link, NERD) within S&P Global's AI innovation hub.

What you’ll do

  • Lead design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of backend services and APIs for Kensho's AI applications.
  • Oversee architecture and implementation of retrieval and orchestration services that integrate with ML systems for grounded GenAI outputs.
  • Set standards for diagnosing latency, throughput, and scalability issues; ensure strong monitoring, logging, alerting, and instrumentation.
  • Shape the architectural roadmap for backend foundations supporting the GenAI platform and ML toolkits (Link, NERD).

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years overall experience with 4+ years hands-on developing customer-facing APIs within a team.
  • 3+ years developing production-grade software and leading remote or multi-site teams of 3-4+ engineers.
  • Experience building and scaling high-volume, low-latency backend services.
  • Strong understanding of distributed system concepts, concurrency, and event-driven architectures.

Technologies

Python · Flask · FastAPI · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL · Celery · RabbitMQ · Redis · Kafka · OpenSearch · AWS · Docker

About S&P Global

Sells credit ratings, market indices (S&P 500, Dow Jones), and financial data/analytics to investors, issuers, banks, and corporates worldwide.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

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always rooted in engineering best practices. As a result, we can innovate rapidly to produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful. About The Team Kensho’s Applications group builds the applications, backend services, and APIs that deliver Kensho’s AI capabilities to customers. Our teams are small, product-focused, and committed to shipping reliable, well-architected systems that scale. We work closely with Machine Learning, Product, and Infrastructure teams to turn advanced AI technology into high-quality, production-ready software. The Applications group provides the core services, orchestration layers, and API frameworks that make Kensho’s AI products fast, dependable, and easy to integrate. We value engineers who bring strong technical judgment, curiosity, and a commitment to building backend systems that enable robust, high-impact AI applications. You can read about
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