Software Engineer (Backend)

About ExTrac

ExTrac is a decision intelligence company used by governments, defence organisations, financial institutions, and corporates operating in complex, fast-moving environments. Our capabilities fuse curated data sources, domain-specific AI, and deep human expertise to transform information overload into clear, actionable foresight.

Our ambition is to become the analytical backbone that organisations rely on when geopolitical uncertainty becomes an opportunity or a strategic risk. More at extrac.ai.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join ExTrac's engineering team to help build and operate the services and pipelines the platform runs on.

ExTrac takes a continuously ingested, multi-source corpus and turns it into products analysts use to make decisions under time pressure. You will help build and run the backend microservices that make that possible: services and databases that expose curated data through APIs, run search and aggregation over large indices, hold application state, and keep the whole thing fast and correct as volume and customer count grow.

The work is broad by design. In a single quarter it spans API and service design, search and database performance, long-running data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and the deployment tooling underneath all of it. You will own well-defined features and components end to end within a single system across a Go and Python codebase, working alongside the AI team who build our analytical and agentic features, the frontend team who build the web and mobile interfaces, and the analysts and product managers who define what gets built.

What the job involves

Service design and delivery

• Build and own features, components, and APIs end to end within a single system, taking responsibility for your work and its place within the overall architecture.

• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions, and take on more of the design work as you build context and scope.

• Build and maintain APIs used by internal teams and customers, following established contracts and versioning conventions.

Production engineering

• Develop Go and Python-based microservices to support data collection, processing, and querying, with guidance from senior engineers on more complex components.

• Help hold services to production