Founding Backend Engineer
Core
Design and operate high-reliability messaging pipelines, agent runtimes, and scheduling systems for an AI-powered platform, ensuring data security and observability.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer (distributed systems & AI infrastructure)
Builds
Inbound/outbound messaging pipelines, agent runtime, scheduling engine, and secure data workflows
Domain
AI infrastructure, distributed systems, telephony/event-driven systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, queue management, failure recovery, Postgres schema design, capacity planning, observability, TypeScript/Python, infrastructure as code
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development workflows, technical leadership, founding-team mindset
Technologies
Postgres, TypeScript, Python, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code
Responsibilities
Design and operate messaging pipelines with reliable ordering and retries; Build an agent runtime supporting concurrency and failure recovery; Implement time-zone-aware scheduling; Plan capacity and optimize databases; Own data security and privacy workflows; Build observability and tracing across distributed components; Set engineering standards and mentor the team
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
