Backend Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend engineering across product, platform, and machine learning

• Scope: Build and own backend systems end-to-end (services, APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure)

• Focus: Production deployment and scaling of generative AI models

Description

You will design, build, and own critical backend systems end-to-end—turning ambitious product ideas into reliable, scalable production systems. The work spans distributed systems, concurrency/performance, and integrating generative AI models into production via deploy-and-serve systems that use both internal and external capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure

• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance

• Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production (deploy, serve, and scale)

• Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to improve system and product quality

• Design and operate core platform infrastructure, including integrations with third-party providers, storage systems, security, and internal APIs

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional industry experience

• Track record of shipping high-impact systems and/or products in production

• Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn

• Excellent engineering taste with practical execution and strong time-management

• Ability to scope and deliver projects end-to-end in an extremely fast-paced environment

Even better if

• Experience working extensively with LLMs and generative media models

• Startup experience (founder or early engineer)

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

• 401K with employer match

• Commuter Benefits

• Catered lunch multiple days per week

• Dinner stipend for late nights

• Grubhub subscription

• Health & Wellness Perks

• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month

• Generous PTO policy