Founding Backend Engineer

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Hiring Company:
Plaud

One-liner:
Plaud is a rapidly scaling AI hardware company with $180M ARR, 10× YoY growth, and 1M+ users worldwide.

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of the technical strategy and execution for our "Plaud for Teams" product roadmap, ensuring it stays tightly aligned with business goals and evolving customer needs
• Guide the complete lifecycle of our "for Team" stack—from initial vision through to product launch—by setting clear, measurable milestones guided by Product Led Growth (PLG) principles
• Architect and deliver scalable permission and collaboration systems and API integrations that enrich functionality and user experience, all while upholding the highest standards for privacy, security, and quality
• Continuously explore, evaluate, and implement cutting-edge AI technologies that advance the capabilities of our agentic platforms
• Clearly communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and progress to leadership, cross-functional collaborators, and stakeholders across all levels of technical fluency
• Build and lead a top-tier engineering team by recruiting, mentoring, and inspiring a culture of innovation, ownership, and hands-on problem solving
• Foster seamless collaboration and alignment across U.S. and international teams to ensure fast, focused execution across disciplines

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of experience in building and scaling productivity SaaS tools
• Experience with Python, FastAPI, Go, PostgreSQL, or similar technology
• Familiar with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience envisioning and delivering an effectively zero-to-one product to global customers
• A deep understanding of LLMs, their capabilities, limitations, and potential applications
• Demonstrated proficiency in a variety of technologies with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools and languages
• Ideal candidate will have previously been the first technical lead at an early-stage high-growth startup, with an emphasis on owning a project from conception to deployment
• Strong leadership and team-building skills with a collaborative approach
• Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline)
• Interested in agentic team collaboration software, SaaS, AI, and LLMs
• Solid understanding of core application security concepts and threat mitigation strategies
• Solid understanding of permission systems and design principles
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Experience managing or collaborating with international teams
• "Always Day 1" entrepreneurship drive

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