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

Role Overview

Backend Engineer at a fast-growing consumer AI startup building the systems behind an AI-driven hardware device. You’ll own real-time transcription pipelines, intelligent APIs, and cloud infrastructure in a high-trust environment with direct founder access.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize RESTful APIs and PostgreSQL schemas for high-scale real-time processing
• Manage and scale AWS infrastructure for transcription and sync pipelines using 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
• Experience optimizing database performance and building scalable backend systems
• Hands-on expertise with AWS and building secure, cloud-native architectures
• High-ownership mindset and ability to ship clean, observable code in a fast-paced startup

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting real-time pipelines and transcription-like workloads (implied by role scope)

Location / Remote

• San Francisco, USA or Remote