Founding Backend Engineer

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

Requirements

• 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
• Experience with computational biology or scientific computing workloads
• Go experience
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)

Qualifications

• Startup background
• Previous startup experience (prior experience either working for or founding a startup)

Skills

• Python
• Node.js
• Go
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
• SQL and NoSQL databases
• CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tools
• Event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity as a founding team member
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO + federal holidays
• Monthly health and wellness stipend
• Meals covered when you're in the office (lunch daily, dinner when you're working late)
• Team offsites and company events

Pay

• $150K - $250K

Schedule

• Full-time