Senior Backend Engineer

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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