Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Founding Team)
Onsite (5 days/week)
Salary: $150K – $250K + Equity
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join an early-stage, high-growth startup building AI-powered products for a large and complex industry.
In this role, you will design and build core backend systems, data infrastructure, and AI pipelines that power next-generation applications. This is not a typical backend role—you’ll work on large-scale data systems, distributed architecture, and AI-driven workflows.
What You’ll Work On
- Retrieval systems for large, unstructured datasets
- AI pipelines for processing documents, data, and workflows
- Distributed systems handling compute-intensive workloads
- Backend infrastructure supporting AI/LLM-based applications
- Real-time systems enabling collaboration between users and AI
Responsibilities
- Build and scale backend systems for AI-driven applications
- Design and develop APIs for complex workflows
- Develop data pipelines for large-scale processing
- Architect distributed, scalable systems
- Optimize performance, latency, and system reliability
- Deploy and maintain production-grade AI/LLM systems
- Contribute to system architecture and engineering best practices
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Experience with distributed systems and scalable APIs
- Solid understanding of data structures, systems design, and concurrency
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI/LLMs, RAG, or vector databases
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines
- Cloud experience (AWS or Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with high-performance or GPU-based workloads
- Startup environment experience