Key skills
AWSCloudDjangoPostgresPythonRubyGoAIMLLLMFastAPIPostgreSQLCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Backend feature development
- Design and implement backend features supporting core product experiences
- Take work from ideation through deployment and production support
- Design backend-first architecture used by mobile clients and internal services
- Integrate backend with LLM-powered and ML-based systems
- Handle latency, failure modes, and operational concerns around AI dependencies
- Improve performance, scalability and reliability of existing backend services
- Work with relational databases: schemas, queries, migrations, and performance issues
- Collaborate closely with mobile, ML, and product managers to deliver features end-to-end
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with Python (Django and/or FastAPI)
- Experience building and operating high-load backend systems
- Experience with asynchronous systems
- Good understanding of API design for backend ↔ client communication
- Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Strong execution and ownership mindset
- Fluent English
- Nice to have: Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent)
- Nice to have: Experience working on AI
- or ML-enabled products
- Nice to have: Experience with other languages (e.g. Go, Ruby)
- Nice to have: Interest in health, fitness, or consumer-facing products
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Django
- Postgres
- Python
- Ruby
- Go
Benefits
- Be part of the fastest-growing fitness and lifestyle startup
- AI and LLMs are core to the product and part of how we build software day to day
- Backend systems with real scale, real users, and real constraints
- AI-driven product where backend reliability and performance matter
- Small team, high trust, and room to grow through responsibility