Member of Technical Staff, Tech Lead Applied AI Backend

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the Applied AI backend domain; core services, data models, orchestration
• Set the technical direction, then stay hands-on enough to build the hardest parts yourself.
• Take problems that arrive undefined, decide what's worth building, and own the outcome - the
• Build and tune high-throughput data and job pipelines: queuing, batching, idempotency, retries, and
• Own the design review bar for backend work across the org. Mentor senior engineers, make the
• Provision and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and at scale. Manage and launch 10s of

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, not just junior ones.
• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and writing
• Hands-on experience with API design - REST, gRPC, or GraphQL, and an understanding of versioning
• Solid database skills: relational data modeling, indexing, query performance, transactions and
• Deep, hands-on expertise in distributed systems: queues and event streams, caching, idempotency

🎁 Benefits

• Bi-annual performance bonus structure
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k Relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership