
Founding Backend Engineer
at VC Funded AI Startup- Building AI for Enterprise Automation
About the Role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Backend Engineer who can own complex product and platform problems end-to-end. You will work across AI agents, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, and distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world IT environments.
This role requires strong engineering judgment, product thinking, and the ability to transform ambiguous requirements into scalable, production-ready systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Build the core platform powering agentic IT operations.
- Design reliable multi-step workflows with retries, approvals, rollback mechanisms, and recovery.
- Develop AI pipelines for intent understanding, planning, validation, and execution.
- Build integrations with Microsoft 365, PSA, RMM, and other IT management platforms.
- Design secure, scalable multi-tenant enterprise systems.
- Improve production observability, monitoring, and reliability.
- Own major features from architecture and development through deployment and production support.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the technical standards of the team.
Required Skills & Experience
- 6–10 years of experience building backend platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise applications.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and system design expertise.
- Experience building REST APIs, asynchronous/event-driven systems, databases, and cloud-native applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently drive solutions in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent debugging, production engineering, and ownership mindset.
- Comfortable using AI coding assistants while independently validating code quality and correctness.
Preferred Technical Stack
Languages & Frameworks
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
Databases & Messaging
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Message Queues
- Event-driven architectures
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS
- Docker
- Terraform
Enterprise Integrations
- Microsoft Graph API
- Microsoft 365
- OAuth
- Webhooks
- PSA/RMM platforms
AI & Workflow Technologies
- Workflow engines
- State machines
- LLM Agents
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI evaluation frameworks
What We're Looking For
- Strong backend engineering expertise with experience building scalable production systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and platform architecture.
- Ability to own features from design through production.
- Product mindset with strong engineering ownership.
- Excellent collaboration and mentoring skills.

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