About the role Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team. You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just ...
About the role Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team. You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just ...
Backend Engineer - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$150K - $250K/yr
Work closely with Product and Engineering to design and implement secure, scalable backend services ... Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ...
Backend Engineer - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$150K - $250K/yr
Work closely with Product and Engineering to design and implement secure, scalable backend services ... Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ...
Backend-Leaning Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$275K/yr
Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines. * Integrate with ... Early-stage startup experience or founding engineer background. Not a fit if you are: frontend-only ...
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Backend-Leaning Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$275K/yr
Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines. * Integrate with ... Early-stage startup experience or founding engineer background. Not a fit if you are: frontend-only ...
Backend-Leaning Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$275K/yr
Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines. * Integrate with ... Early-stage startup experience or founding engineer background. Not a fit if you are: frontend-only ...
Backend-Leaning Product Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$275K/yr
Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, data models, and automation pipelines. * Integrate with ... Early-stage startup experience or founding engineer background. Not a fit if you are: frontend-only ...
We're growing fast - since our founding in 2019, we've grown to over 5 million users across 600,000 ... One team one dream About this role We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our ...
We're growing fast - since our founding in 2019, we've grown to over 5 million users across 600,000 ... One team one dream About this role We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our ...
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will be pivotal in building foundational components of ... alongside the founding team. • Set the foundational system architecture and select key ...
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will be pivotal in building foundational components of ... alongside the founding team. • Set the foundational system architecture and select key ...
Software Engineer, Backend
San Mateo, CA · On-site
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Software Engineer, Backend
San Mateo, CA · On-site
They are seeking a backend/infrastructure engineer to join their founding team and work on building scalable ML and data pipelines. Responsibilities : • Build large scale data pipelines to handle ...
Founding Engineer - Backend & Data Platform ($175,000 - $225,000 + Equity) at Greenline
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$175K - $225K/yr
Founding Engineer - Backend & Data Platform Salary: $175,000 - $225,000 + Equity Company Description: Greenline - Fast-growing fintech startup As a Founding Engineer, you will architect the ...
Founding Engineer - Backend & Data Platform ($175,000 - $225,000 + Equity) at Greenline
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$175K - $225K/yr
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Learn more at Description of the role This is a true founding engineer role . You won't just ship ... Develop scalable backend services for document processing (PDF/OCR/CSV), async job queues, case ...
Learn more at Description of the role This is a true founding engineer role . You won't just ship ... Develop scalable backend services for document processing (PDF/OCR/CSV), async job queues, case ...
This is your chance to join as a founding engineer and shape a platform that every behavioral ... You'll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend systems that process ...
This is your chance to join as a founding engineer and shape a platform that every behavioral ... You'll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend systems that process ...
Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed)
$160K - $230K/yr
Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed) Location: San Francisco, CA · On-site Compensation: $160K ... full-stack or backend-leaning engineer Openings: 2-3 Visa: Sponsorship available; transfers ...
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Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed)
$160K - $230K/yr
Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed) Location: San Francisco, CA · On-site Compensation: $160K ... full-stack or backend-leaning engineer Openings: 2-3 Visa: Sponsorship available; transfers ...
You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product ... Experience as a founding engineer or early-stage startup employee, where you built systems from ...
You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product ... Experience as a founding engineer or early-stage startup employee, where you built systems from ...
You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product ... Experience as a founding engineer or early-stage startup employee, where you built systems from ...
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Forward Deployed Engineer
$150K - $225K/yr
The order matters -- backend depth first, then client-facing -- because the role requires real building, not just integration support. * Founding engineer or founder background. The role requires ...
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Forward Deployed Engineer
$150K - $225K/yr
The order matters -- backend depth first, then client-facing -- because the role requires real building, not just integration support. * Founding engineer or founder background. The role requires ...
This is a backend-heavy, AI-native role where you'll need to go full stack when required. No hand ... engineer and a CTO cofounder who will push your growth * A founding seat at the table where you'll ...
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This is a backend-heavy, AI-native role where you'll need to go full stack when required. No hand ... engineer and a CTO cofounder who will push your growth * A founding seat at the table where you'll ...
This is a backend-heavy, AI-native role where you'll need to go full stack when required. No hand ... engineer and a CTO cofounder who will push your growth * A founding seat at the table where you'll ...
This is a backend-heavy, AI-native role where you'll need to go full stack when required. No hand ... engineer and a CTO cofounder who will push your growth * A founding seat at the table where you'll ...
Our founding team consists of second-time entrepreneurs, each with over 20 years of experience in ... backend engineer * Experience designing and building microservices in a production cloud ...
Our founding team consists of second-time entrepreneurs, each with over 20 years of experience in ... backend engineer * Experience designing and building microservices in a production cloud ...
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$180K - $225K/yr
Founding Engineer -- Confidential (AI Startup, YC/a16z-Backed) Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite ... Full-stack proficiency with a backend focus * Active user of modern AI tooling (e.g. Claude Code ...
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Founding Engineer -- Confidential (AI Startup, YC/a16z-Backed)
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid
$180K - $225K/yr
Founding Engineer -- Confidential (AI Startup, YC/a16z-Backed) Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite ... Full-stack proficiency with a backend focus * Active user of modern AI tooling (e.g. Claude Code ...
Senior Backend Engineer ($180K - $220K + Equity) at Duckbill
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Full-time
Medical, Dental, Vision
Posted 2 days ago
Key responsibilities
Design and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production.
Deploy and optimize AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements.
Manage infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
Job description
Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team.
You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just robust systems, but help shape the technical backbone of a category-defining company from day one.
You're a great fit if you're known for making infrastructure elegant, reliable, and secure - even under demanding workloads. You find energy in scaling systems that power intelligent agents, and you take pride in building foundations others can depend on.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production
- Deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements
- Managing infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure system reliability
- Contributing to infrastructure security and best practices
You likely have:
- Experience deploying and productionizing ML or AI-heavy workloads
- Expertise in building secure, scalable systems on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Deep knowledge of backend systems, networking, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with infrastructure security principles and compliance (e.g., SOC2)
- The mindset of an owner: proactive, hands-on, and driven to solve problems end-to-end
- The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 20 employee
- Competitive compensation
- Significant equity upside
- Medical / dental / vision
This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).