Backend Engineer

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This is an opportunity to match into the strongest Backend Engineering roles in NYC
, companies building AI infrastructure, real-time systems, distributed backends, and core product APIs at a top‑1% engineering bar.

We partner with startups that ship with Stripe‑level rigor
, Datadog‑style reliability
, and the pace of early‑stage AI startups
, but operate quietly, selectively, and with true ownership culture.

These roles are built for engineers who:

• Love building scalable backend systems
• Thrive in ambiguity and small teams
• Move fast but write maintainable, production‑quality code
• Prefer ownership over process
• Enjoy hard technical problems (infra, pipelines, distributed systems)
• Want meaningful product impact, speed, and access to leadership

• Scalable backend services
• High‑throughput APIs, real‑time data pipelines, distributed systems
• AI‑adjacent backend infrastructure (model‑serving, eval systems, data systems)
• Zero‑to‑one backend components for fast‑growing NYC AI product teams

These are high‑ownership, core engineering roles where your work becomes the backbone of the product.

• Deep experience in Python, Go, or Type Script/Node
• Ability to architect scalable services and distributed systems
• Experience with cloud infra (AWS/GCP), containers, CI/CD, monitoring
• Real ownership of production systems, not just features
• Strong communication + alignment with fast‑moving teams
• Ability to make architectural decisions independently
• Interest in AI infra, automation, and data‑intensive systems

• Direct intros to NYC’s 20+ top‑tier backend & AI teams
• Founder & CTO access
• Clarity on hiring bar + interview expectations
• Access to stealth opportunities not advertised publicly
• We work directly with these teams to scale engineering orgs