Backend Engineer: Scale-Driven Systems & Data Unification

AI Talent Now; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401k match

Relocation bonus

On-site gym

Visa sponsorship

Public transit benefits

Meal stipends

Job summary

AI Talent Now, LLC is building a modern backend and data unification platform for complex, legacy systems. We seek a world-class engineer who enjoys simplifying complexity, unifying data, and shipping scalable backend services in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will work across on-prem and cloud ecosystems, design robust APIs, and contribute to both backend and frontend initiatives while maintaining a strong ownership mindset.

Qualifications

• 1 - 4 years of experience in back-end/full-stack software engineer. Must be able to work independently without much guidance.
• Startup focused: recent experience at small (Seed to Series B) tech startup. No more than 2yrs at later-stage/public companies.
• Top US/CAN school: CS degree from a top 25 undergrad school in US or Canada
• Candidate should not be primarily LLM/AI focused and give the impression that they mainly want to work on AI given we are not AI-focused
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
• Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team. Excited to be our next hire; passion for building a world-class engineering culture
• Some indication of excellence: healthcare, 401k, relocation, gym, visa, commuter benefits, meals

Responsibilities

• Unification: we’re unifying dozens-to-hundreds of fragmented systems under a single standard that we define. Our unification covers data objects, data models, authentication, account-linking UX, and features like filters and pagination.
• On-prem: we’re connecting with many types of on-prem systems (SQL-based, DLL-based, API-based), many built 20-40 years ago. We provide tremendous value to customers allowing them to interface with these systems in a secure, fast, reliable way, as if they’re modern, cloud-based products.
• Scale & speed: we’re handling millions of API requests per day, and growing daily. For our products that we power with our own API (e.g. Analytics), we need to store and retrieve large amounts of data in an efficient way, building elegant caching layers to reduce latency.
• Operational excellence: we’re creating a reliable API layer on top of many old systems that don’t have APIs. It’s like building a skyscraper on quicksand, enforced by SLAs. We need to innovate in expanding the depth and breadth of our integrations while simultaneously increasing our development velocity.
• Mix of back-end and front-end: we’re building front-end apps that dog-food our own APIs (e.g. Sync, Analytics).
• Variety: without knowing, you might assume adding a new integration is low-ambiguity and routine. But each integration we launch is special, completely different and posing unique challenges.

Skills

Backend

Full-stack

API design

AWS

Data modeling

Education

CS degree (Top US/Canada)

Tools

SQL

REST APIs

Job description

AI Talent Now, LLC is building a modern backend and data unification platform for complex, legacy systems. We seek a world-class engineer who enjoys simplifying complexity, unifying data, and shipping scalable backend services in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will work across on-prem and cloud ecosystems, design robust APIs, and contribute to both backend and frontend initiatives while maintaining a strong ownership mindset.