Backend Engineer

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Build and expand our feature management products and APIs, written in Go, with a focus on AI

• Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features

• Monitor and improve server-side performance

• Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary

• Actively participate in code reviews

• Write and review technical proposals

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with server-side programming languages (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Go)

• Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining RESTful APIs

• Hands-on experience building GenAI features or working with Large Language Models (LLMs), either through direct model integration or leveraging AI APIs like OpenAI, Google Cloud AI, or AWS Bedrock.

• Understanding of prompt engineering, fine-tuning models, or deploying AI services in production environments.

• Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading

• Comfortable navigating ambiguous challenges in a rapidly evolving domain

• Passionate about learning new technologies and staying at the forefront of AI advancements

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering impactful solutions

• Proven ability to work closely with Product and Design teams to define requirements for new features in a fast-paced iterative environment.

• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability

• You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems

• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices