Senior Backend Engineer at well-funded AI infrastructure startup
Jack & Jill · New York, United States · Today
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About the role
The role is for a Senior Backend Engineer position at a well-funded AI infrastructure startup based in New York, USA.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build a high-performance enforcement engine that validates AI communications in real-time.
- Sit directly in the API layer to ensure every message meets regulatory standards for global financial institutions.
- Solve complex systems challenges involving low latency and high throughput.
- Shape the engineering culture of an early-stage team.
Requirements
- Proven track record building distributed systems at high-growth, engineering-forward companies.
- Rigorous backend practices and high-scale traffic are the norm in these environments.
- Deep expertise in backend architecture, systems programming, and handling high-throughput production environments.
- System failures have significant regulatory consequences in these scenarios.
- Experience in early-stage environments, owning complex features end-to-end and defining technical standards from the ground up.
Qualifications
- Sub-millisecond latency in processing thousands of personalized communications per second.
- Complex global regulatory frameworks including SEC, FINRA, and GDPR standards.
- Collaboration on scaling the distributed system infrastructure to support tier-one financial institutions.
- Maintaining zero tolerance for correctness failures in the system.
Skills
- Backend architecture.
- Systems programming.
- High-throughput production environments.
- Complex distributed systems.
- Regulatory compliance.
Benefits
- Join an elite founding team with a track record of scaling multi-billion dollar systems at major technology and financial firms.
- The company is backed by top-tier venture capital firms and is solving a critical compliance bottleneck for AI adoption in regulated industries.
- Own the core architecture of a mission-critical "firewall for AI" that sits in the path of every outbound enterprise message.
Pay
Not disclosed.
Schedule
N/A