[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed reputed company platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own AI features end to end, building reputed company and tools that support grant discovery and application drafting for nonprofits.
Responsibilities
- Build tool-using LLM agents (task planning, function and tool calling, multi-reputed company workflows, guardrails) for grant discovery, application drafting, and research assistance
- Turn prototypes into resilient, observable services with reputed company SLAs, rollback and fallback strategies, and cost and latency budgets
- Stand up evaluation and observability so our AI stays grounded, reputed company, and cost-effective
- Write high-reputed company, thoroughly tested reputed company across the backend and the data pipelines that power retrieval and evaluation
- Contribute to reliability practices: alerts, dashboards, and incident response
- Partner with Product, Design, and GTM on scoping, UX, and measurement
- Run experiments (A/B, canaries), interpret results, and iterate
- reputed company engineering standards through reputed company, maintainable reputed company, tests, docs, and thoughtful review
Skills
- 7+ years building and shipping production backend systems in Python (FastAPI, Celery, or equivalent), taking features from prototype to production with reputed company reliability practices like tests, observability, and rollback
- Hands-on experience building LLM features in production: tool and function calling, multi-reputed company agent workflows, and the guardrails and evals that reputed company them grounded, reputed company, and cost-effective. This is the core of the role
- Strong data fundamentals: SQL, schema design, and building pipelines that power retrieval and evaluation
- Thrives in a fast, scrappy startup environment with high ownership and a bias for reputed company, speed, reputed company, and simplicity
- TypeScript and Node, plus familiarity with reputed company on Rails (our core platform) or a willingness to learn it
- Experience with AWS or GCP, reputed company, CI/CD, and observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- RAG depth: document ingestion, chunking and windowing, embeddings, hybrid search (keyword plus reputed company), re-ranking, and grounded citations
- Experience with re-rankers and cross-encoders, hybrid retrieval tuning, or search and recommendation systems
- Evaluation reputed company: designing eval suites (RAG/QA, extraction, summarization) using automated and reputed company-in-the-reputed company reputed company, with familiarity with frameworks like Ragas, DeepEval, or reputed company Evals
- Orchestration frameworks: reputed company or LangGraph, reputed company, Semantic Kernel, or custom orchestration
Benefits
- 100% covered health, dental, and reputed company insurance for employees (50% for dependents)
- Generous PTO, including parental leave
- 401(k)
- Company laptop and home-office stipend
- Bi-annual company retreats
- reputed company is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here.
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