AI-Powered Backend Engineer - Growth-Stage Startup

Albert Bow; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Albert Bow are supporting an early-stage start-up in NYC that is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join its growing engineering team. The product is AI-powered, connects contracts, documents, invoices and financial data to automate processes used by major US customers.

You'll work across the stack on challenging technical problems, build production-grade software, and have a direct impact on the product as the company scales its engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining production software.
• Strong backend development, APIs and system design knowledge.
• Exposure to AI/LLM technologies and interest in AI-powered applications.
• Understanding of RAG, embeddings, vector databases or LLM integrations is a plus.
• Experience with databases and handling structured or unstructured data.
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, reliable code.
• Ability to work independently and own deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Work on document processing, data extraction, search and retrieval.
• Build APIs and integrations connecting enterprise systems.
• Handle large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Improve performance, reliability and scalability of systems.
• Work with cloud infrastructure and deployment environments.
• Collaborate with the team to turn requirements into solutions.
• Own features from development to production.

Skills

Production software development

Backend engineering

APIs and system design

AI/LLM technologies

Data handling (structured/unstructured

AWS/GCP cloud

Clean code

Ownership of deliverables

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

React

AWS

Job description

Albert Bow are supporting an early-stage start-up in NYC that is looking to hire a Software Engineer to join its growing engineering team. The product is AI-powered, connects contracts, documents, invoices and financial data to automate processes used by major US customers.

You'll work across the stack on challenging technical problems, build production-grade software, and have a direct impact on the product as the company scales its engineering team.