Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Product Genius is a seed-stage AI startup developing real-time learning technology. The Backend Engineer will build and maintain backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines connecting live user and merchant behavior to self-learning systems, while owning production reliability and advancing engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Real-time learning engine. Contribute directly to the systems at the core of the business
- APIs and data pipelines. Build and maintain the connections between live user behavior and our self-learning systems
- Engineering practices. Champion practices that safely accelerate the team: AI-assisted coding, streamlined CI/CD, and stronger QA
- Production ownership. Own what you ship. Dig into logs and traces, find root causes, and improve testing to prevent issues before they recur
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend systems
- Hands-on daily experience with agentic AI coding tools, comfortable managing multiple parallel sessions
- Experience building APIs and data pipelines connecting live systems to downstream analytics or ML systems
- Comfortable picking up any language; we typically use Python, SQL, TypeScript, and React
- Able to jump into a complex, unfamiliar codebase and rapidly get productive in it
- Collaborative at the level of shared context and problem framing; self-sufficient at the level of code
- Strong math or analytical background
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Exposure to containerization and orchestration tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP)
- Experience with ClickHouse queries and optimization
- Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities and scope can shift quickly
- E-commerce industry knowledge or empathy—you understand merchant and customer workflows
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with teams like sales and marketing, including hands-on customer integrations
- You're the person who spins up a newly released tool or framework just to see what's possible
- You've run an LLM on your local machine for fun
Benefits
- Stock options
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k with matching contributions
- Work-at-home office reimbursement benefit
- Generous paid time off
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