Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

Apiphany Corporation

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity: 0.1%–1.0%

401(k) plan

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

A pioneering AI company in San Francisco seeks a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer to design and build core systems for its intelligence platform. The role involves ensuring low-latency services and APIs with a focus on performance and security. Candidates should have 3-5+ years of experience in backend service design using Python and hands-on experience with cloud deployments and container technologies. This position offers a base salary between $160,000 and $300,000 along with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

3-5+ years of experience in backend development.
Hands-on experience with cloud and container technologies.
Ability to build and maintain high-performance APIs.

Responsibilities

Design and build core systems for the intelligence platform.
Own low-latency services and secure APIs.
Mentor teammates and establish engineering best practices.

Skills

Backend services design in Python

Building data-heavy systems

RESTful APIs development

Cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/CD practices

Job description

About Apiphany

Apiphany is a pioneering foundational AI company for physical product development. We empower global innovators in automotive, aerospace, medtech, and energy to transform mountains of unstructured technical data into real-time, actionable insights. Backed by world-class investors from Markforged, Databricks, GM, and Character, our mission is to revolutionize how engineering decisions are made, turning complexity into clarity for the world’s top manufacturers.

Our models are built for the complexities of engineering and manufacturing. Our models understand physics principles, design specifications, and program constraints. We’re a small, elite team of builders from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, UW, and CMU, alongside industry leaders from GM, Ford, and Genesis Therapeutics. We’re passionate about transforming hard-tech and building a category-defining company together.

About the Role

As a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer at Apiphany, you’ll design, build, and scale the core systems that power our intelligence platform. You’ll own backend low-latency services and APIs that handle massive engineering data streams, ensure security and compliance, and architect systems for high availability and performance. You’ll also help shape long-term architecture, mentor teammates, and establish engineering best practices for scaling backend services to deliver high-performance and reliable applications.

Experience & Skills

3-5+ years of experience designing and building distributed backend services in Python (async, data pipelines, APIs)
Experience building data-heavy, high-throughput systems with a focus on latency, performance, and reliability
Proven ability to build and maintain RESTful APIs for large-scale applications
Hands-on experience with cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Experience building integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS tools, and enterprise applications
Experience with CI/CD, observability, and testing frameworks

Bonus Skills

Frontend experience with React/TypeScript (full-stack exposure)
Infrastructure familiarity: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
Background in data visualization dashboards (D3, visx, or equivalent)

Personality & Values:

Startup mindset: bias toward action, rapid iteration, and ownership
Mission-driven and customer-obsessed
Self-motivated, collaborative, and eager to raise the bar for the whole team
Passion for building secure, reliable, and scalable systems that empower product innovation

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