Founding Backend Engineer
- $100k – $180k • 0.1% – 1.0%
- |
- |4 years of exp
- |Full Time
Reposted: 10 months ago
Job Location
Remote Work Policy
In office
Visa Sponsorship
Not Available
RelocationAllowed
Skills
Python
PostgreSQL
TypeScript
About the job
This is your opportunity to help build the next paradigm of AI for your non-work life. Get in on the ground floor, working with product-minded builders from Uber, Instagram, Google and LinkedIn.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the design and development of our core backend services
- Integrate bleeding-edge AI technologies with battle-tested, proven software
- Build resilient infrastructure that gracefully handles high data throughput, real-time interactions, and adaptive self-improving mechanisms
- Help shape our engineering culture, best practices, and technical roadmap
Your Experience:
- 4+ years of experience building production-grade backends, ideally at a high-growth startup or top-tier tech company
- Hands-on proficiency with Python, TypeScript, postgresql
- Experience working with popular libraries/frameworks (FastAPI, Pydantic, Langchain, Socket.IO, JsonFormSchema) and CI/CD platforms (eg Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Native Solutions)
- Bonus: Have shipped LLM-integrated products or worked with vector databases, embeddings, or agentic workflows
Mindset:
- Care deeply about product quality, performance, and user experience
- Excited to work at a mission-driven startup solving a real, emotionally resonant problem
- Ahead of the curve in leveraging (good) vibe-coding techniques to enhance output and speed
- Entrepreneurial, good communicator, team player
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