Senior Backend Architect – Cloud & HPC Simulation

Puesto: Senior Backend Architect – Cloud & HPC for Simulation

Flexcompute is leading the transformation of engineering simulation with our revolutionary ultra-fast simulation technology. Our flagship products, including the industry-leading Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software Flow
360 and electromagnetic simulation software Tidy3D, are reshaping how simulations are conducted across diverse sectors. Founded by visionaries from Stanford and MIT and supported by top-tier venture capital firms, we are a rapidly growing team dedicated to breaking boundaries and challenging the norms of the multi-billion-dollar engineering simulation market.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help us design and implement scalable solutions that meet the growing demands of our advanced EM simulation platform.

Additionally, the candidate will help us enhance our data management, frontend-backend API unification, and cloud integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to general software development efforts, such as API unification, simulation data management (e.g., caching, syncing, storage), and scripting improvements.
• Collaborate with EM and infrastructure teams to implement simulation-specific solutions, including enhancements to back-end/scheduler integrations and Python front-end functionality.
• Improve our task pipelines through an innovative design for a web API in a multi-physical simulation context.
• Develop and maintain hybrid cloud compute and storage solutions, integrating on-premise HPC systems with modern cloud platforms.
• Optimize and manage high-performance computing clusters equipped with high-speed interconnects

This is a senior seat. We keep the team small and senior on purpose, so you will own real pieces of the platform end to end, with little direction and direct access to the founders.

What you need

• Strong backend engineering in at least one of Java, Python or C++. Deep in one is enough.
• Real production cloud experience, AWS preferred.
• Distributed systems you have operated in production, not only studied.
• Direct ownership of a production backend service, from design through deployment and operation.
• Fluent professional English, spoken and written.
• Based in Spain, with the right to work there without visa sponsorship, and available on Spanish working hours with about six hours of overlap with our Boston team.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, telecommunications engineering or a closely related field.

What you can learn here

We hire for depth, not checklists. You do not need all of the following on day one:
Kubernetes and Docker, Terraform or Ansible, monitoring and observability tooling, Linux troubleshooting, networking and security practices, our simulation stack, and HPC (preferred, not mandatory). We look for people who have entered a new domain before, learned it fast and reached ownership.

Bonus

• Load balancing, autoscaling, and queues or streaming systems such as SQS, SNS or Kafka.
• Experience integrating cloud platforms with HPC environments or large compute clusters.
• Familiarity with job schedulers or batch systems, distributed compute frameworks, or large-scale data pipelines.
• Experience supporting scientific computing or simulation platforms.
• Knowledge of GPU infrastructure and resource scheduling.
• Experience building developer platforms or internal infrastructure tooling.
• A degree in computer science, computer or telecommunications engineering, mathematics, physics or a related field from a leading university. Hands-on production experience matters more than where you studied.

Innovative Mindset:
Ability to learn quickly, adapt to new challenges, and innovate in a fast-paced startup environment.

Example Projects

• Architect and deploy infrastructure that runs distributed simulation workloads across…