Junior Software Engineer (Backend + AI)

Job description

Junior Software Engineer (Backend + AI) About Newton Research: Newton Research builds an AI-powered research and analysis platform used by enterprises to unlock insights from their data. Our platform connects to major data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift), runs autonomous AI agents that reason over structured and unstructured data, and presents findings through a rich interactive frontend. We're a small, high-output team where interns work on production code from week one. Our stack is real, and we want you to know what you're getting into: - Backend: Python 3.13, Django 5.2, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Redis - AI/ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google LLM APIs; LangChain + LangGraph agent orchestration; sentence-transformers for vector embeddings; RAGAS for evaluation - Data Science: NumPy, Pandas, Polars, scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyMC (Bayesian), Prophet, Plotly - Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Ant Design, TanStack Query, SCSS Modules - Infra: Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS (S3, ECR), MinIO, Sentry, RQ (Redis Queue) for async workers - Testing: pytest with 4,700+ tests, Vitest, Playwright E2E, parallel execution via xdist What You'll Actually Do: T...