Backend Engineer — High-Impact, Early-Stage Platform

Manifold Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with matching

Comprehensive medical, dental, and视ion

Unlimited PTO

Health & Wellness stipend

Lunch stipend 3x per week and dinner

Company-wide break the last two weeks

Supportive leave of absence

Job summary

Manifold Industries is seeking a Software Engineer to build the core architecture and foundational systems powering our software for government decision-makers. You will own authentication, authorization, data storage, APIs, and shared services to enable rapid, secure product development.

You will work with our founding engineering team to turn a fast-evolving prototype into a scalable production application. Expect high ownership and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals across backend, APIs, and data storage.
• Experience designing, testing, and deploying production software for real customers.
• Ability to own complex engineering projects from design to production deployment.
• Strong systems design skills with tradeoff evaluation for scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Demonstrated initiative and judgment in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
• U.S.-based U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Build core foundation: authentication, RBAC, data storage, APIs, and shared services.
• Design scalable architecture to support evolving product and multi-customer deployments.
• Own backend systems end-to-end from requirements through production deployment.
• Establish engineering standards: automated tests, API contracts, maintainable systems.
• Enable rapid product development with reusable components and services.
• Collaborate with Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Platform Engineers.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

Database-backed apps

System design

Security awareness

Independent ownership

Tools

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Neo4j

Next.js

Job description

Manifold Industries is seeking a Software Engineer to build the core architecture and foundational systems powering our software for government decision-makers. You will own authentication, authorization, data storage, APIs, and shared services to enable rapid, secure product development.

You will work with our founding engineering team to turn a fast-evolving prototype into a scalable production application. Expect high ownership and cross-functional collaboration.