Founding Backend Engineer
Core
Design and operate the backend for an AI assistant handling text, email, and phone communications, ensuring reliable message delivery and system stability.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer
Builds
Messaging pipelines, background agent runtime, scheduling systems, and observability infrastructure for an AI assistant
Domain
AI assistants, distributed systems, telephony, cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
distributed systems, queues, workers, retries, idempotency, Postgres, TypeScript, Python, observability, capacity planning, security practices
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development workflows, technical leadership, mentoring
Technologies
Postgres, TypeScript, Python, cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design messaging pipelines with ordering and retries; build background agent runtime with concurrency and recovery controls; develop scheduling systems for time-zone-aware actions; plan capacity and optimize databases; own security and privacy practices; build observability and cost tracking; set engineering standards and mentor the team
Seniority
Founding, hands-on technical leadership
