Founding Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Looking for an exceptional backend engineer to own the systems, infrastructure, and platform that power a fast-growing AI product used by teams every day. This is a role for engineers who care deeply about performance, scalability, reliability, and clean architecture.

You'll thrive if you:

• Have built and scaled production backend systems
• Have deep experience with databases, distributed systems, and infrastructure
• Enjoy solving performance bottlenecks and complex technical problems
• Think in systems, not just features
• Have strong product instincts and care about customer outcomes
• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow
• Take ownership from problem discovery through to production

You'll work on:

• High-scale backend services
• Database architecture and optimisation
• Retrieval and search infrastructure
• Event-driven systems
• Third-party integrations
• Reliability and observability
• Billing, authentication, and platform services
• AI product infrastructure

Ideal experience:

• Ruby, TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or similar
• PostgreSQL at scale
• Background jobs and asynchronous systems
• API design and integrations
• Performance tuning and system optimisation
• Cloud infrastructure and modern developer tooling

Why join?

You'll join a small team of highly capable engineers building technology at the frontier of AI applications. High ownership. Real technical challenges. Direct impact on product and customers.