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

Jack & Jill

hybridmidpermanentbackend United States Today via LinkedIn
110,000 - 160,000 USD/annual

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Tags

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWSECSRDSLambdaWebSocketsREST APIsCI/CD

About the role

Backend Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript)

Build and scale the backend systems powering a consumer AI hardware device.

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, including ECS, RDS, and Lambda.
  • Implement real-time capabilities using WebSockets.
  • Maintain robust CI/CD pipelines with Docker and GitHub Actions.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Strong experience with database optimization.
  • Hands-on expertise in AWS services and building secure, cloud-native architectures.
  • High-ownership mindset; ability to ship clean, observable code in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience building real-time transcription or streaming data pipelines (implied by role focus).

Location / Work model

  • San Francisco, USA or Remote.

About Jack & Jill

Jack & Jill is an AI recruiting/intermediation service that sources candidates from its network and makes introductions to hiring companies. The role described is with a fast-growing consumer AI startup building an AI-driven hardware device. The startup is backed by venture capital and is scaling globally.

Scraped 7/31/2026