Founding Backend EngineerCompany OverviewClient is a fastgrowing social shopping platform cofounded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni The platform currently serves over 350000 users and boasts a 90 retention rate Phia combines community personalization and AIdriven recommendations to revolutionize online shopping Backed by early investors Phia offers the opportunity to join a small missiondriven founding team and help shape the future of social commerceKey Job Information Location San Francisco or New York City must relocate to NYC within a few months Work Type Inperson fulltime Experience Required 3 years Salary Range 160000 200000 per year Visa Sponsorship H1B O1 OPTRole SummaryAs the Founding Backend Engineer you will own and scale Clients data infrastructure which powers search personalization and recommendations You will work closely with the CTO and ML engineers to design robust pipelines architect backend systems and establish best practices for backend engineering This is a foundinglevel opportunity with significant product and technical ownershipResponsibilities Architect and implement backend systems for Clients recommendation engine and shopping experience Design and maintain data pipelines for ingesting and processing largescale datasets from multiple sources Build reusable APIs and microservices for core product features Integrate machine learning models into production in collaboration with the ML team Ensure system reliability scalability and maintainability across the backend stack Define and enforce backend engineering standards and technical best practicesRequirements Minimum of 3 years of backend engineering experience Strong proficiency in Python and cloud platforms AWSGCP Handson experience building data pipelines and microservices architectures Familiarity with Airflow gRPC GraphQL Deep understanding of search and vector database technologies including HNSW Hierarchical Navigable Small World OpenSearch Elasticsearch Approximate Nearest Neighbor ANN frameworks Excellent system design and problemsolving skills Must be willing to work inperson in New York City relocation support providedBenefits amp Perks Competitive salary plus founding equity package Comprehensive health vision and life insurance 401k with company matching Free daily lunches snacks and latenight Ubers Opportunity to work directly with founders and early team members shaping product and technical directionInterview Process1 Intro Chat with Head of Recruiting2 Technical Interview Intro Chat 3 Coding Interview 4 CTO Interview 5 Onsite Interview technical cultural6 Offer Extended7 HiredGreen Flags Preferred Qualifications Experience at large tech companies Meta Google Pinterest etc and scrappy startups Familiarity with Ray Dask and Kubernetes Background in machine learning or handling large datasets Proven ability to establish technical best practices and standards Passion for building reliable highperformance systems that drive business impactRed Flags Disqualifiers Only worked at large tech companies Meta Google etc with no startup experience Frequent job hopping tenures less than 6 months Primarily management or nonhandson engineering roles Unwilling to relocate to New York City within a reasonable timeframeIdeal CompaniesApple Meta Amazon Pinterest Google Robinhood Ramp Uber Lyft DoorDash Spotify
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