Founding Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Develop production-grade applications using Python.
• Work on backend architecture, system design, databases, and integrations.
• Build new features and products from 0 to 1
• Collaborate closely with founders, product, and engineering teams.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Debug performance and production issues and continuously improve system reliability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from design and development to deployment.
• Contribute to technical decisions and help shape the engineering culture as an early team member.

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python.
• Experience building REST APIs / backend services.
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB.
• Understanding of cloud platforms, Docker, CI/CD, and deployment.
• Good understanding of scalable and reliable backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership.

Skills

Distributed Systems, LLMs, Python, TypeScript