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Founding Engineer, Backend
Falconer
San Francisco, USA
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
USD 150000-250000 yearly / year
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PythonNode.jsKafkaRabbitMQDockerKubernetes
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Key responsibilities
- Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying
- Research and apply best practices in terms of infra, deployment, and containerization of our products and ML stack
- Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices— the Falconer platform will help you!
- Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices
Who you are
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing APIs or backend systems in different languages (we'll gravitate towards Python and Node.js)
You can evaluate trade-offs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs)
You have experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
You make containers look simple, and are the go-to person to discuss Docker or Kubernetes
You can make anything run in AWS or Google Cloud
You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments
You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems
Bonus points
You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)
You're familiar with vector databases and similarity search
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