Compensation: $200,000–$280,000 + equity (≈ 1–2%)
📌 What You’ll Do
- Own design, architecture, and maintenance of backend systems — services, data jobs, auth, search indices, workflow engines.
- Manage infrastructure (currently on AWS), ideally using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and test suites to support fast engineering velocity while controlling cost.
- Deliver major features in coordination with other engineers across the company.
- Lead technical decisions: framework selection, database schema design, overall system architecture.
✅ Experience & Requirements
- 6–14 years overall in backend engineering, with at least ~5+ years post-senior experience.
- Prior technical leadership experience (able to drive system architecture independently).
- Familiarity with backend stack: TypeScript, Python, Go, Postgres, AWS / IaC (e.g. Pulumi).
🧑💼 About the Company
- Early-stage startup (~ ~20 employees).
- Founded recently (year 1), backed by institutional investors.
- Mission: building a commerce-layer platform enabling real-time design/transformation of physical spaces via computer vision + AI.
- Remote-first, U.S.-only hiring.