Senior Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Job Description
We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered workflow tools to supercharge investment research for private market investors. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms - We already power hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 30+ based in London, NYC and Sydney. We 10x’d our revenue in 2025.
Role Description
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll help build and scale the systems that power our AI-driven research platform. This is a systems-level role - ideal for engineers who love thinking about data flows, orchestration, and performance across complex distributed systems.
You'll have the unique opportunity to:
- Ship quickly
- Architect and scale backend systems that support high-throughput LLM interactions, vector search, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Stitch together AI infrastructure across model providers, data stores, and internal APIs to create cohesive, performant systems.
- Own reliability and observability, helping us evolve our database (Postgres / ClickHouse) and job orchestration systems.
- Prototype new backend capabilities (retrieval pipelines, caching layers, async task queues) that let us build faster and smarter.
- Shape our engineering culture
About You
We're looking for product-minded backend engineers who:
- Based in NYC, ***we are 5 days a week in person
- Are excited by the intersection of AI infrastructure and systems design
- Have experience leading projects end-to-end
- Are eager to contribute to product decisions
- Are proficient in our tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
- Feel like you are never building fast enough
Bonus points for experience working on:
- Retrieval/embeddings/prompt orchestration
- Built internal infrastructure / dev tools @ startups
Benefits
All the usual benefits (competitive pay and equity, private healthcare etc). Unusual benefits:
- Gym membership
- In-office cook
- Summers working in Greece by the beach
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