Founding Backend Engineer
Core
Design, operate, and improve reliable backend infrastructure for an AI-powered personal assistant handling text, email, and phone communications.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer
Builds
Messaging pipelines, agent runtime, scheduling systems, and observability for an AI personal assistant
Domain
AI / Telephony / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
distributed systems, Postgres, TypeScript/Python, messaging systems, observability, capacity planning, infrastructure as code
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development workflows, technical leadership, founding-team mindset
Technologies
Postgres, TypeScript, Python, cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design and operate messaging pipelines with ordering and retries; Build an agent runtime for background tasks; Implement scheduling for deferred actions; Plan capacity and optimize databases; Own data security and privacy workflows; Build observability and tracing; Set engineering standards and grow the team
