Senior Backend Engineer, AI-Powered Web App

Summary

Join our early engineering team and contribute to shaping our technical direction, processes, and culture by enhancing and scaling the backend systems powering the Mimica platform.

Requirements

• Background in backend engineering, focusing on developing high-performance production software and scalable architectures
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Practical experience in designing APIs and managing databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB), with a keen eye for query optimization and efficient data storage & handling
• Commitment to upholding high engineering standards
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills – methodically decomposing systems to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes and implement effective solutions
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Contributing to architectural decisions
• Collaborating across teams to identify and implement product improvements
• Developing and optimizing a real-time backend service that enables multiple users to edit graph data and re-train AI models through their input
• Creating libraries and building APIs in our Node backend to interact with the various ML components of the system
• Diagnozing fault-tolerance and availability issues, as well as performance bottlenecks, and resolving them
• Refactoring our components and services and producing documentation for your implementations
• Providing feedback to peers through pair programming and code reviews and helping those around you to level up
• Participating in hiring and onboarding new team members; taking on end-to-end project management responsibilities as we grow

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and monitoring
• Firm grasp of distributed systems concepts and techniques – microservices, load balancing, caching, horizontal/vertical scaling and stateless architectures
• Working knowledge of secure software design principles
• Experience working within a high-impact, high-ambiguity startup environment – delivering value quickly and iteratively
• Active interest in AI, automation, or related fields

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Ample paid time off
• Flexible schedules and location
• Start-to-finish project ownership