over 1 year ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Participate in the full product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deployment.
- Research and apply best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and containerization of products and the machine learning stack.
- Develop and maintain backend systems, including API services, databases, and server-side logic.
- Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
- Write clean, efficient, and documented code and recommend emerging web development technologies and practices.
- Contribute substantially to product development, technical direction, and company culture as a founding engineer.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience is required.
- At least five years of experience developing APIs or backend systems in different languages is required, with Python and Node.js preferred.
- Ability to evaluate storage trade-offs across SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases is required.
- Experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is required.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is required.
- Ability to deploy applications on AWS or Google Cloud is required.
- Experience building LLM-powered products or agents and familiarity with vector databases and similarity search are preferred.
Benefits
- Generous equity package and competitive benefits are offered.
- A 401(k) retirement account is available.
- The role includes a high-spec MacBook and developer tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Linear.
- Flexible work arrangements include in-office or hybrid work for the right candidate.
- The office is located in San Francisco near Caltrain.
Tech Stack
About Falconer
Falconer builds an AI-powered, self-updating knowledge platform that helps companies and engineering teams understand their organization, codebases, and products, and manage internal knowledge. It offers a SaaS product for creating, discovering, and maintaining reliable technical and product knowledge across tools. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco, Falconer raised a seed round in 2025.