# Backend Engineer, Foundations

About the CompanyOur client is an AI-native platform powered by use-case-tailored legal ontologies and knowledge graphs, deploying multi-step agentic frameworks to perform legal analysis and produce actionable outputs in real time. Role Objective The role is critical for architecting the APIs, workflows, and data layer that internal services, agentic systems, and enterprise law firm customers rely on, while helping establish strong engineering foundations as the backend team scales in a fast-paced, seed-stage environment. Responsibilities Design, build, and scale the knowledge graph infrastructure and data pipelines that turn unstructured legal documents into structured, queryable legal ground truth Architect and implement public-facing APIs that internal services, agentic systems, and customers rely on Build DAG-based processing workflows on Prefect for extracting, transforming, and reconciling legal data from source documents Scale the platform to handle rapidly growing data volumes - processing thousands of documents per data room with 5-10x growth expected in the coming months Operate and maintain services on Kubernetes - deployment, observability, and performance tuning Partne

- **Id**: 4276656
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/idn-recruitment-backend-engineer-foundations>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T19:11:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:11:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2498
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sales & Marketing, Marketing Automation, iGaming & Gambling, Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 4485857
- **Name**: IDN Recruitment
- **Domain**: idnrecruitment.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/idn-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PeopleForce

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Dagster** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Neo4j** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:11:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:35:04Z

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