Staff Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• A Pure Builder (100% IC): You are a dedicated, high-impact Individual Contributor. Your leverage comes from your technical architecture, system scalability, and raw code output.
• The AI-Augmented Developer: You build with AI. You are fluent in the new paradigm of software engineering, aggressively leveraging tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor as massive force multipliers.
• Deeply Plugged into the AI Ecosystem: You understand agentic AI architectures, AI agent orchestration frameworks (e. g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI), vector databases (e. g., Pinecone, Milvus), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and model serving infrastructure (e. g., vLLM).
• High Agency and Extreme Resourcefulness: You operate with a growth mindset and thrive in high-ambiguity, fast-paced environments. You don't wait for perfectly scoped requirements. You figure it out, you hustle, and you ship relentlessly.

Requirements:

• Battle-Tested Backend Expertise (~8+ Years): You are, first and foremost, a hardcore software engineer.
• You have spent years building, scaling, and maintaining complex backend systems.
• You have deep expertise in core backend infrastructure, including microservices architectures, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, etc.
• You know what architectural decisions cause bottlenecks at scale, how to design robust APIs, and how to build systems that don't break under heavy load.