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Backend Engineer

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3 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for Known’s consumer product.
  • Build real-time systems for conversational AI, voice interactions, and agentic workflows.
  • Architect data pipelines and storage systems for matchmaking, personalization, and machine learning.
  • Develop low-latency services connecting AI agents to real-world actions and third-party integrations.
  • Own systems end to end through architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
  • Improve system performance, reliability, security, and scalability as the product grows.

Requirements

  • Require 4–6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production backend systems.
  • Require strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java.
  • Require experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and scalable service architectures.
  • Require experience with relational databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and data infrastructure.
  • Require experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP.
  • Seek strong product intuition, a bias toward shipping and iteration, and a high degree of ownership.

Benefits

  • In-person work in Cow Hollow, San Francisco.
  • Cash compensation plus equity.
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