Backend Engineer

GovernGPT.ai; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-focused startup in Montreal is seeking a Backend Engineer to lead backend service development using LLM innovations. The ideal candidate will work closely with the CTO, focusing on API design, system reliability, and efficient architecture patterns. This role offers the opportunity to grow with a supportive team and includes meaningful equity as part of the compensation.

Benefits

Meaningful equity

Collaborative in-person culture

Qualifications

• Intermediate experience in backend development.
• Familiarity with automation and reliability in systems.
• Experience with API design and data models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of backend services.
• Monitor and improve infrastructure security.
• Propose scalable backend architecture patterns.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Postgres

LLMs (off the shelf and fine-tuned)

React

Typescript

Job description

About The Team

We’re a YC-backed, profitable startup that’s bringing the first knowledge worker automations to reality in asset management. Every day the biggest firms in public and private markets rely on our software to more accurately, transparently, and rapidly update their investors on billions in investments.

We build with the newest tools and every role within our tight-knit, all-engineers team has incredible autonomy to go out and delight our users. If you want to test a new model, or explore brand new orchestration and LLM processing at scale techniques, you can do that here - everything we do is innovative at its core.

This is just the start, we have much bigger plays planned in partnership with our customers to change how $20 trillion dollars of capital is allocated in global financial markets.

About The Role

Our users rely on our software to be accurate, performant, and deliver top quality AI automation that helps them author, review, and validate what they say across their investor base. The reliability of these systems is a major reason why our customers trust us to accept 10x more automation in their workflow. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll work side by side with our CTO to bring scale to meta analysis of documents across our database; coordination of long-running, interdependent, and asynchronous workflows; and API availability and ease of use.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the development of our backend that brings bleeding-edge LLM innovations to users with highly-available, reliable, and autonomous services.
• Work with the founding team to identify scalable solutions to performance improvements to our services.
• Own the reliability of and participate in the design of APIs and data models that power a sticky enterprise product
• Propose backend architecture patterns that helps us scale how quickly we can release high quality, and experimental features.
• Join a team of world-class engineers who will bring you thought partnership and as much growth as you want in your role.
• Monitor, evaluate, and improve the security of our entire infrastructure stack.
• Design your role to cover as much of the delivery of our backend services and asynchronous infrastructure depending on where your interest lies, as well as which responsibilities you want to own.
  
  

You Are

• Passionate about what you do, not strictly the most experienced (at least intermediate).
• Self-guided in your exploration (with side projects you can brag about).
• A team player (your efforts are greater as part of something bigger).
• Eager to learn and grow (you’re committed to 10x’ing your skills).
• Looking for a team that gives you more than your typical job (we empower each other).
  
  

Stack

• Python/FastAPI/arq
• Postgres
• LLMs (off the shelf and fine-tuned)
• React/Typescript
  
  

This role is exclusively based in our downtown Montreal office. We all have a few hours of overlap per day in person. It’s how we build culture and make sure we’re having fun.

You’ll vest meaningful equity as part of your compensation.