Founding Engineer - Backend
Founding backend engineer architects scalable AI-powered services, agent orchestration, and voice AI pipelines for automated market due diligence platform. Requires 3+ years Python backend, production APIs, LLMs, PostgreSQL, and async systems expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build new product features and experiences end-to-end, from database models to API endpoints, integrating with UI components for web and AI Voice Agent Application.
- Design and build new AI-powered modules from scratch (e.g., market sizing, competitive analysis) for the research platform.
- Build and own product foundations (AI agent orchestration, voice AI pipelines, app and API performance, intelligent automations).
- Architect scalable backend services with complex async processing and background task orchestration.
- Apply learnings from each project to improve the product continuously.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional Python backend experience.
- Strong expertise building production APIs (FastAPI, Django, or similar).
- Experience building agentic systems with LLM platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar).
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs in production - building reliable agentic systems.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL database design.
- Understanding of async programming, job queues, and distributed systems.
- Experience with background task orchestration and async processing workflows.
Bonus
- Experience with Anthropic Claude API and Agent SDK.
- Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks.
- Background in AI/ML systems or voice AI.
- Familiarity with vector databases and semantic search (pg_vector, etc.).
- Experience with Supabase or similar Backend-as-a-Service platforms.
- Previous startup experience.
Skills
Python, FastAPI, Django, Postgres, SQL, LLMs, Anthropic, OpenAI, Async Programming, Job Queues, Distributed Systems, Pg_Vector, Supabase
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