Senior Backend Engineer | Series B AI Startup
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Day One Partners is a search firm that partners with venture capital firms to help build high-growth startups. We lead confidential searches for leadership and critical roles across a range of company stages, industries, and functions
About The Role
An emerging venture-backed firm is reshaping how companies coordinate internal operations and business logic. This position invites you to help architect the core systems that support real-time decisions, configurable processes, and streamlined performance, all without legacy constraints.
They raised a
$20M Series A and recently secured a Series B.
You’ll collaborate with a focused group of engineers driving the development of a platform that enables flexible process definition, intelligent automation, and actionable insights across operational layers.
Where You’ll Make an Impact:
- Develop services that manage adaptable data structures and logic layers across evolving use cases
- Implement resilient mechanisms to handle live configuration updates with traceability
- Build tooling that supports no-code/low-code process design and validation
- Enhance an execution engine tailored for responsive operations and insight generation
- Deliver ergonomic interfaces and libraries that abstract underlying complexity
- Provide full visibility and semantic search across system-wide information sets
- Support engineering maturity through guidance, collaboration, and shared ownership
Your Experience Should Include:
- Working with scalable data transformation workflows involving tools like Postgres, DuckDB, or search engines
- Running dependable cloud-deployed systems in production
- Designing adaptable architectures and reusable software components
- Familiarly building large-scale ETL pipelines
Benefits and Perks:
- Premium coverage for health benefits, flexible time off, and retirement options
- Well-resourced office setting with catered meals and relocation help if needed
- Be part of a mission to simplify and modernize operations infrastructure from the ground up