🌟 We're Hiring : Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer! 🌟
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems that power our platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and system architecture to drive technical excellence and innovation.
📍 Location : San Francisco, United States
⏰ Work Mode : Flexible office & remote
💼 Role : Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer
What You'll Do : Job Description : -
Our client is a YC-backed San Francisco startup building autonomous AI agents for fraud prevention, compliance, trust & safety, and threat intelligence.
The platform provides a unified API for policy management, detection, enforcement, observability, and moderator workflows—helping enterprises protect millions of users from scams, spam, and abuse.
- Clients include : Medium, GoFundMe, and multiple Fortune 500 companies
- Funding : $3.1M Seed round
- Growth : 15x revenue increase in the past year
- Mission : To rebuild an internet safe enough to be free again
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to help build and scale Client’s fraud / risk detection systems. You’ll work on distributed real-time infrastructure, ship features quickly, and lay the foundation for scaling our platform to more enterprise clients and industries.
Key Responsibilities
Build and ship end-to-end product features with ownership and urgency.Scale infrastructure to support billions of daily events and millions of users.Design and implement distributed and real-time systems for fraud / risk detection.Develop scalable product foundations serving enterprise customers like Medium, GoFundMe, and Fortune 500s .Collaborate closely with founders, engineering, and product teams.Must-Have Qualifications
Expertise in distributed systems and real-time event processing .Strong experience with big data / NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, BigTable, etc.).Proficiency in streaming technologies (Kafka, Pub / Sub, etc.).Familiarity with vector databases and scaling LLM-based systems .Proven ability to deliver features end-to-end .Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of rate-limiting infrastructure .Experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments.Background in observability / data visualization products.Prior experience in growth-stage startups .Strong background from top companies or universities .Strong Signals
Domain expertise in fintech, payments, or fraud / risk systems (PayPal, Stripe, Uber, eBay, etc.).Experience with high-volume consumer systems .Fluency in Elixir, Golang, Scala, Rust, Python, or TypeScript .Familiarity with event sourcing, stream processing, low-latency infrastructure .Interview Process
Hiring Manager Call (15–20 min) – candidate goals & objectives.Technical Coding Screen (45 min) – problem-solving in Python or TypeScript.Behavioral Interview with Co-Founder.Work Trial (preferred) – 2–3 days on a real project in Client’s codebase (paid / optional).Alternative : 4-hour onsite interview with system design + behavioral rounds.
Ready to make an impact? 🚀 Apply now and let's build the future together!