Senior Backend Engineer (AI Platform, Data Orchestration & Geospatial Systems)

Location: Bay Area; San Mateo, United States, California

Salary: $220,000 per year

Company

An early-stage AI company is building technology to make housing and building development more sustainable, efficient, and equitable through an interdisciplinary AI platform.

What you will do

• Design and implement robust, production-level backend software for a SaaS platform.
• Build services supporting inference, optimization, and other AI-driven capabilities.
• Develop scalable representations and schemas for complex data types.
• Build data orchestration pipelines for geospatial, regulatory, and multimodal data.
• Partner with AI engineers to deploy machine learning models and services reliably.
• Create reproducible deployment workflows and own capabilities from prototype through production release.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience building large, complex software systems or applications, including five or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python development skills and experience delivering production-quality backend software.
• Experience working with messy, complex datasets and building data orchestration pipelines and workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working across multiple technical areas.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers, scientists, domain experts, and product managers.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• No optional qualifications specified.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position.
• Opportunity to shape an AI platform and its technical foundations at an early stage.
• Broad ownership across backend software, data infrastructure, and AI deployment.
• Work on engineering problems connected to sustainability and global housing needs.