Backend Engineer

Summary

Join freeflow, a generative AI company revolutionizing the insurance industry, as a Founding Backend Software Engineer. This fully remote role offers a competitive salary ($180,000-$220,000) and equity. You will be a key member of a small, high-performing team, building and scaling the backend infrastructure. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and a passion for solving complex problems. Freeflow provides a supportive culture emphasizing autonomy and ownership, along with competitive benefits.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large scale distributed systems
• Systems programming experience skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc
• Strong CS fundamentals with an appetite for learning
• Knowledge about machine learning and artificial intelligence (e.g. coursework)
• Collaborative teammate, willing to roll up your sleeves and use instinct to get things done the right way
• Passionate about solving customer needs and love moving fast

Responsibilities

• Be the founding backend software engineer on an engineering team that builds features which will deliver lasting value to customers
• Create novel and optimal algorithms and models to capture context in multimodal inputs and produce accurate outputs
• Design and implement complex, distributed event driven applications able to efficiently process large amounts of data, at scale
• Build stable and scalable architecture, understanding the tradeoffs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions to meet the evolution of a rapidly growing platform
• Apply SRE principles to consistently deliver value and growth reliably, owning all aspects of the software engineering process
• Collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to gather feedback and continually improve the platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in generative AI, foundational models, LLMs, deep learning, machine learning, and understanding the state of the art
• Academic and/or professional experience building ML and AI models and integrating with software

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, stock options, health insurance
• Home office setup stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Use the tooling of your choice to maximize your productivity (e.g. paid ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Intellij, etc)