Senior Backend Engineer & Tech Lead for AI SaaS

Foundation AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Foundation AI, a rapidly growing SaaS company delivering AI-native document intake automation for claims and litigation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead backend systems. You will mentor engineers, design scalable architectures, and drive performance, security, and reliability across Python-based services using Flask/FastAPI/Django, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, in a collaborative Agile environment.

Join a team focused on engineering excellence, code quality, and rapid, dependable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python and frameworks.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications using Python.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.
• Define and implement scalable system architectures.

Skills

Backend engineering

Mentoring

Code reviews

Agile/Scrum

Problem solving

System design

Tools

Python

Flask

FastAPI

Django

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Foundation AI, a rapidly growing SaaS company delivering AI-native document intake automation for claims and litigation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead backend systems. You will mentor engineers, design scalable architectures, and drive performance, security, and reliability across Python-based services using Flask/FastAPI/Django, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, in a collaborative Agile environment.

Join a team focused on engineering excellence, code quality, and rapid, dependable