Backend Engineer

CincyBrianHires is recruiting for an unnamed client building an AI-powered cloud savings platform. The Backend Engineer will develop and scale backend services, improve cloud cost tools, help build a new LLM product, and strengthen engineering workflows and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own backend projects from start to finish in a flat team with no silos, either improving the existing cloud cost tools or building new ones
• Design, build, and scale the backend services and infrastructure behind the AI-powered savings platform
• Help build the new LLM product as the team grows and potentially splits into a cloud-optimization team and an LLM team
• Work daily with the founding engineers and the CEO in the San Francisco office, so the code you write reaches customers quickly
• Strengthen engineering culture through code reviews, better dev workflows and CI/CD, and by keeping the system reliable and fast

Skills

• We're looking for strong, ambitious, low-ego engineers from top universities, ideally with startup experience, who thrive with a lot of autonomy
• Experience at a fast-paced B2B startup, AWS, or a larger tech company
• Undergraduate CS or engineering degree from a top school (e.g., Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan
• 3-10 years of experience as a backend engineer
• Prior roles such as Backend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Software Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer
• Ideally with startup experience
• Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, DynamoDB, cloud cost tooling, or LLMs

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