{"id":771011,"url":"https://alion.io/job/boam-staff-backend-engineer","title":"Staff Backend Engineer","company":{"id":11198,"name":"Boam","domain":"boam.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/boam","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Budapest, Hungary","Cape Town, South Africa"],"countries":["HU","ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":56000,"max_usd":115000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1586},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Scala","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-12-16T02:06:21Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-12-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-28T16:12:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":286,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":286},"description":"Architect and scale the core systems behind our managed data agents\nBoam AI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise.\nAs a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the technical direction of our Scala + Python data and agent infrastructure. You’ll own long-term architecture across multiple systems and scale both existing and greenfield services to keep our data fresh, our APIs fast, and customer workflows moving. This is a role for someone who wants to set the bar for technical excellence, mentor other engineers, and take responsibility for hard distributed systems problems with minimal safety nets and a small, senior team.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and build resilient backend services and APIs\n\nOwn high-level system architecture and major technical decisions across multiple systems\n\nOversee critical data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery\n\nArchitect systems for 100x data growth over the next three years\n\nLead major cross-team initiatives and complex project delivery end to end\n\nPartner with ML leaders on model integration and agent architecture\n\nBuild reliability and test coverage into the code itself with no separate QA layer\n\nImprove performance, scalability, and observability across our stack\n\nMentor engineers through direction, feedback, and day-to-day support\n\nRaise the engineering bar through design reviews, pairing, and clear technical standards\n\nOptimize for real impact, customer outcomes, and fast iteration over theoretical perfection\n\nUse next-gen AI tools to improve code quality and velocity\n\nYou Might Be a Fit If...\n8+ years building and operating complex, production backend systems\n\nDeep experience with high-throughput, large distributed systems\n\nStrong experience with Scala, Python, or functional / JVM languages\n\nComfortable with distributed systems, data modeling, and high-volume pipelines\n\nHistory of providing technical coaching and direction to senior engineers\n\nExperience introducing new technologies and patterns across the team\n\nEnjoy greenfield work: from first principles design to deploy and monitoring\n\nThrive without heavy process, QA buffers, or endless safeguards\n\nShip, measure, refine over over-architecting, build foundations when needed\n\nMotivated by solving real user problems, not just abstract puzzles\n\nExcited to work where AI/ML is deeply embedded in the product, not bolted on\n\nWhy Boam AI\nJoin a no-politics, high-trust, low-ego, and high-talent team\n\nOwn mission-critical systems used by top-tier enterprise customers\n\nWork directly with founders and the Head of Engineering on problems that matter\n\nHigh autonomy, real impact, and clear ownership from day one\n\nOperate at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and enterprise workflows\n\nTop-tier compensation with meaningful equity upside\n\nHelp build the platform, patterns, and engineering culture you can be proud of\n\nOur Hiring Process\nOur process is fast, structured, and transparent, built to respect your time and surface real mutual fit\n1. Intro Call\nA short conversation to learn more about you, share context on Boam AI and the role, and answer initial questions.\n2. Deep Dive\nWalk us through past engineering work, systems you’ve led, and how you think about complex, ambiguous backend and architecture problems.\n3. Work Sample\nSolve a real Boam-style technical and architecture challenge that shows your system design, technical judgment, and execution muscle.\n4. 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