What We're Looking For

• 2–10+ years building and scaling production backend systems. You've taken systems from zero to production and owned the full lifecycle. Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems), with deeper expertise in one or more areas — and a desire to keep expanding your breadth over time.
• Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast. We care about getting things into users' hands and iterating from there.
• You take ownership. When something is broken or unclear, you fix it or flag it without waiting to be asked.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You make reasonable calls with incomplete information, communicate them clearly, and adjust as you learn more.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD. We're building systems that will one day serve Fortune 500 executives in real-time — so reliability matters. Familiarity with AWS/GCP, containerization (Docker/K8s), and CI/CD pipelines ensures we can deliver high uptime and iterate quickly.
• A future leader. You'll help shape our engineering culture and can quickly grow into leadership as the company scales.

Technical Areas Where Depth Matters (one or more)

• Data Engineering: Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, streaming pipelines, ETL at scale.
• Distributed Systems: High-volume scaling, fault tolerance, eventual consistency.
• AI/ML: LLMs in production, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, inference optimization.
• Backend: Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, high-concurrency systems.

Nice-to-Haves

• Computer vision or multimodal model experience (audio, video, image). This is central to our product, so it's a meaningful differentiator.
• Semantic search, vector databases, or meaning-aware retrieval.
• LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, or eval pipelines.
• Web scraping and API integrations at scale.
• Startup founder or early-stage experience is a huge plus.

What This Role Is Not

We're hiring for the application and data layer. This probably isn't the right fit if your background is primarily in firmware, embedded systems, hardware engineering, networking, or infrastructure/DevOps.

A Few Things Worth Knowing

• We care more about what you ship than when or where you work, but this is an early-stage company growing fast. The pace reflects that. Our culture is intense and driven by H&H (hunger and hustle).
• As one of the first engineers, you'll wear a lot of hats. There's no platform team to hand things off to yet.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150K–$220K
• Equity: Early-stage grant with significant upside
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO

Growth: A clear path to engineering leadership as we scale