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Founding Backend Engineer Jobs in Berkeley, CA (NOW HIRING)

We are hiring a Founding Software Engineer in San Francisco. We are building a small, talent-dense ... Architect, build, and scale core backend systems powering document intelligence and VLM-based ...

Founding Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer Location | On-Site -- San Francisco, CA Time Zone ... backend systems - Strong debugging ability across services, networking, storage, and cloud ...

We're looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love. As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development ...

As one of the founding members of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping our product ... Have 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer developing and deploying production-level backend ...

They are seeking a founding Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and ship robust backend systems that deliver exceptional value to their members, working closely with founders, engineers, and ...

Lunar Labs is the founding team behind leading lending app Moonwell and finance agent Mamo. As a Backend Engineer, you will enhance the data infrastructure and ensure reliable, real-time information ...

About the role We're hiring a founding Senior Backend Engineer to help us design, develop, and ship robust backend systems that deliver exceptional value to our members. You'll work closely with our ...

Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $200K/yr

Our founding team includes experienced entrepreneurs with prior exits, and our culture is fast ... bonus) As a Backend Engineer , you'll contribute directly to the core of our product and ...

Our founding team includes experienced entrepreneurs with prior exits, and our culture is fast ... bonus) As a Backend Engineer , you'll contribute directly to the core of our product and ...

Our founding team includes deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and LLMs with technical ... About this role: We're seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to lead the charge in building the ...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Engineer - this is an onsite role in ... Role overview As a Backend Engineer, you will own and lead the core systems that make the assistant ...

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$170K - $230K/yr

We're growing fast, since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 7 million users across 600,000 ... About the Role We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Core Engineering Team, which ...

What you'll do * We're looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join as a founding team member of Delphina. * As one of our key early hires, you will partner closely with our early ...

You'll work closely with the founding team (AI/ML, fullstack, product, and design) to architect ... Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js/TypeScript, including RESTful APIs ...

Staff Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$224K - $284K/yr

What you'll do We're seeking a Backend Engineer to join our founding team who will design and scale the cloud systems that power our real-world operations - keeping our fleet, dispatch, and ...

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As of Aug 12, 2026, the average yearly pay for founding backend engineer in Berkeley, CA is $180,803.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $151,800.00 and $210,600.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.
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Founding Backend Engineer

Novaflow (YC S25)

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago


Job description

Job Summary:
Novaflow is an AI data analyst for biology labs, aiming to streamline analytics for scientific discovery. They are seeking a Founding Backend Engineer to build the infrastructure and services for their platform, focusing on APIs, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain APIs and backend services in Python, Go, or similar
• Set up and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, optimize queries, design data models
• Build data pipelines and integrations with third-party services
• Manage data infrastructure (storage, compute) for large-scale workloads
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability
• Help build the engineering team and establish how we work
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years building and running backend services in production
• Strong with cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Deep SQL knowledge and data modeling experience
• Proficient in Python and Node.js for APIs and services
• Experience with microservices, service-to-service communication, and API design
• Familiar with CI/CD, monitoring, and keeping production systems healthy
• Good communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly
Preferred:
• Experience with computational biology or scientific computing workloads
• Go experience
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Startup background
• Previous startup experience (prior experience either working for or founding a startup)
Company:
Creating tools to automate data analysis for life science researchers. Founded in 2025, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.