Senior Backend Architect — AI Infra & Platform (Equity)

Abaka AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

PTO

Flexible work

Job summary

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Infra, to own the scalability and reliability of our backend services powering the AI-native product features and platform applications. You will focus on the cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data models while remaining capable to support end-to-end product development.

You will work as a product-minded engineer with strong ownership from day one, shaping architecture across the organization and collaborating with Product and AI/ML teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in backend: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, and API design at scale.
• Track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or an entire organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of Abaka Expert Platform's shared backend systems—core services, data models, APIs, and cross-product infrastructure.
• Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for backend architecture across the organization.
• Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs that power AI-native product features at scale.
• Design systems for scale, reliability, and evolvability, and lead the highest-stakes technical decisions and design reviews.
• Establish backend engineering standards, patterns, and best practices adopted across all product teams.
• Partner with Product and AI/ML teams to translate product and model requirements into production-grade systems.
• Use modern AI development tools.
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing backend infrastructure.
• Debug and resolve production issues

Skills

API design

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Databases

Frontend (React/TS)

Job description

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Infra, to own the scalability and reliability of our backend services powering the AI-native product features and platform applications. You will focus on the cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data models while remaining capable to support end-to-end product development.

You will work as a product-minded engineer with strong ownership from day one, shaping architecture across the organization and collaborating with Product and AI/ML teams to deliver