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Backend Engineer ($110K–$160K + Equity) at fast-growing consumer AI startup

Jack & Jill

hybridmidpermanentbackenddevops United States Yesterday via LinkedIn
110,000 - 160,000 USD/annual

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Tags

Node.jsTypeScriptREST APIsPostgreSQLAWSWebSocketsECSRDSLambdaCI/CD

About the role

Backend Engineer (AI Hardware)

Build and scale the systems that power an AI-driven hardware device, including real-time transcription pipelines, intelligent APIs, and robust cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize RESTful APIs and PostgreSQL schemas for high-scale real-time data processing.
  • Manage and scale AWS infrastructure for transcription and sync pipelines using ECS, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Implement real-time capabilities with WebSockets.
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines using Docker and GitHub Actions.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Database optimization experience.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and building secure, scalable cloud-native architectures.
  • High-ownership mindset with experience shipping clean, observable code in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience supporting rapidly scaling consumer products and high-throughput real-time systems.

Location

  • San Francisco, USA or Remote.

About Jack & Jill

Jack & Jill is a fast-growing consumer AI startup developing market-leading AI hardware products. The role focuses on building backend systems for real-time transcription and scaling cloud infrastructure to support a global user base.

Scraped 7/30/2026