Senior Engineer | Back-End

Black Ore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

100% Employer-paid medical, dental and vision insurance

401K and Roth 401k

Unlimited PTO

Relocation support

WFH stipend

Job summary

Black Ore, based in Austin, Texas, is seeking a skilled Back-End Engineer to join their innovative AI team. You will be pivotal in building core AI infrastructure, optimizing products, and developing APIs that will shape financial service solutions.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in Java, with 5+ years in production systems and expertise in cloud environments. Black Ore offers competitive salaries, comprehensive health benefits, and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrated success building production systems.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Java & JVM ecosystem.
• Comfortable with cloud production environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, reliable, scalable production-grade services.
• Own the full SDLC in a cloud environment.
• Partner closely with Product and DevOps.

Skills

High-level architecture

Problem-solving skills

Java

Cloud environments

APIs development

Data structures and algorithms

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

About us

Black Ore is building the leading AI platform designed to accelerate financial services. The company's flagship offering, Tax Autopilot, leverages proprietary AI agents to automate tax preparation and compliance, helping CPA & tax firms overcome the talent shortage and accelerate growth for their practice.

Founded in 2022, we launched with $60 million in early stage funding from some of the world’s leading investors including a16z, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Trust Ventures and leading tech founders/angel investors including Jason Gardner (Founder and CEO of Marqeta), Max Levchin (Founder of Paypal and Affirm), Tom Glocer (Former CEO of Thomson Reuters), Gokul Rajaram, and Mark Britto (EVP, CPO, PayPal).

Our team has an incredibly ambitious vision to completely transform the way businesses and consumers interact in financial services. We’re looking to hire strong team members to grow the team. Some of the traits we look for are:

• Owner Mentality – Desire to take initiative, identify problems, and implement solutions
• Mission Driven – Passion for building AI/ML solutions that reimagine how businesses and consumers operate
• Intellectually Curious – Excitement going deep for building detailed understanding of the function, role, customer, and problem space
• Team Oriented – Ability to collaborate respectfully and put the team above the self

Qualifications

The Role

You will be joining a group of talented, experienced engineers with successful track records building and scaling products / companies from idea to pre‑IPO and beyond. As a member of the Back‑End team, you will work with other engineers and data professionals to heavily impact our core products and data infrastructure and delivery of our solutions. You will be responsible for building our core AI infrastructure, scaling and optimizing our products, building APIs, supporting AI/ML Ops and deploying software components from the ground up to production. You will be expected to be able to work independently and with your team to deliver solutions successfully, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.

What You’ll Do

• Solve non‑trivial problems
• Design and implement secure, reliable, scalable production‑grade services and APIs
• Own the full SDLC: requirements gathering, system design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response in a cloud environment
• Partner closely with Product, DevOps and other developers
• Diagnose and resolve production issues with root‑cause analysis and proactive improvements
• Propose architecture enhancements, tooling improvements, and performance optimizations to keep us nimble and robust

Basic Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or related technical field
• High‑level architecture, design & problem‑solving skills
• Profound understanding of data structures & algorithms
• Excellent written & verbal technical & personal communication skills
• 5+ years of demonstrated success building production systems in one or more programming languages
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with Java & JVM ecosystem, concurrency, performance tuning, and profiling
• Hands‑on experience with relational/NoSQL databases and messaging systems
• Comfortable with cloud production environment, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js and/or Python
• Knowledge and experience in ML/LLM

What We Offer (for U.S. Based Employees)

• Competitive salary and equity based compensation
• Best‑in‑Class health benefits
  • Platinum, 100% Employer‑paid medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Additional Health programs (e.g., One Medical, Talkspace, Kindbody)
• 401K, Roth 401k and other employer sponsored investment benefits
• Parental Leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Relocation support to Austin, NYC or SF (as needed)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs