Staff Backend Engineer (Submission Processing)

Join our team as a Staff Backend Engineer in Submission Processing. You'll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering, designing systems, making architectural decisions, and setting the technical direction for the team. You'll build and scale LLM-based systems that process billions of unstructured data points daily. This is a unique opportunity to tackle cutting-edge challenges in the industry.

• Conception et mise en œuvre de systèmes de traitement des soumissions, en prenant des décisions architecturales éclairées.
• Responsabilité de la conception et de l'architecture des systèmes, en jouant un rôle clé dans la définition de la direction technique de l'équipe.
• Collaboration avec une petite équipe pour résoudre des problèmes complexes et avoir un impact significatif sur la technologie et l'entreprise.
• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
• Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
• Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
• Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
• Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
• Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
• Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
• Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
• Are excited by problems others are struggling with
• Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data