What You’ll Do
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support Collate’s products.
- Ensure systems are performant, secure, and reliable at scale.
- Collaborate with product, design, and ML teams to turn ideas into production-ready features.
- Build internal tools and workflows that accelerate engineering productivity.
- Continuously improve backend architecture to support rapid growth and new capabilities.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience designing and scaling backend systems in production.
- Strong skills in building APIs and services, with attention to reliability and performance.
- Comfort working across the stack when needed, with a focus on backend depth.
- Ability to move quickly while building for long-term maintainability.
- Excitement to work in an early-stage startup where ownership is high and impact is immediate.
- A collaborative, humble approach and eagerness to learn whatever is needed to solve the problem.
Modern Tech Stack
Collate uses Go for scalable backend services, Postgres as our main database, TypeScript & React for frontend development, and Python for AI & ML services. Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS with Kubernetes for orchestration and Terraform + Argo CD for configuration management. Other key systems include S3, Kafka, OpenSearch, LLMs, and other AI models.