Backend Engineer

### Who you are
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
- 5+ years experience in tech industry
- Proactive and eager to take ownership
- Fast iteration based on user engagement
- Experience in backend or distributed systems
- Experience in data/indexing/search systems at scale
- Expertise in best practices of building for scale, performance, and engineering best practices
- Excited about growing as a mentor to the engineering team

### What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product
- This year we are set up for rapid growth to tens of thousands expert users who rely on Samaya daily
- You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining a high standard of internal engineering
- Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system uses state-of-the-art in-house models and retrieval systems, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence
- You will ensure that we scale this system to work reliably while enabling rapid improvements with good engineering standards
- Reducing latency will be critical to delivering a near-instant experience for users and unlocking better quality within a restricted budget
- Agents: You will develop expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights
- In this role, you will enable fast, reliable, AI experiences to thousands of users and be the foundation of how our engineering team and cultures grows!
- Develop and own core system components and services, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and scalable
- Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents
- Provide engineering best practices across our entire product, backend, and ML stack
- Take ambiguous business/product problems and build extensible systems that allow us to build fast and adapt to user needs

### Benefits
- Health: Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision and short-term disability
- Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing, with 401k (US) and enhanced pension (UK)
- Rest: The ability to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO
- Flexibility: A hybrid work environment (typically, team members spend a minimum of two days in the officer per week)
- Travel: Travel to other locations is encourage to foster team cohesion and maintain Samaya's unique culture
- Equipment: Equipment allowance to create your ideal work setup