Founding Backend Engineer
Core
Founding Backend Engineer responsible for hardening the core pipeline, building multi-tenant authentication, and ensuring reliability for enterprise clients in the renewable energy intelligence platform.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer (Data Engineering & ML Ops)
Builds
Renewable energy intelligence platform processing aerial imagery, geospatial, property, grid, and weather data
Domain
Renewable Energy / AI / Geospatial Data
Required skills
Backend fundamentals, Data engineering judgement, Deep learning model production deployment, Cloud-native infrastructure design, API architecture, CI/CD implementation
Preferred skills
Geospatial/GIS work, Compliance-conscious environment experience, DevOps exposure, Frontend competence
Technologies
Python, Typescript, Postgres (geospatial), GCP
Responsibilities
Harden core pipeline against failure with timeouts and retries, Build CI/CD, structured logging and alerting, Design and ship multi-tenant API authentication, Own data engineering across ingestion and schema design, Build automated testing and ground-truth benchmarking, Shape architecture decisions with the CTO
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC