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Backend Software Engineer - Consumer Generative AI Startup Backend Software Engineer - Consumer Generative AI Startup Direct message the job poster from Skyrocket Ventures
Recruiting Director at Skyrocket Ventures Backend Software Engineer - Consumer Generative AI Startup
Location: Mountain View, CA
The company is building a consumer product that involves generative AI.
The company's team is comprised of industry veterans with experience in building and scaling many 0 to 1 successful consumer products. The Founder was previously the VP of Engineering of a $100+ billion public company, and prior to that was an engineering leader for widely used products at Google. Much of the team is from Google, Twitter, Coinbase, and top startups.
The company has raised a very large round of seed funding from leading investors. It has about 25 employees and 20 engineers, has roughly doubled in less than 6 months, and is rapidly growing.
The company will pay a salary up to $250k, plus equity which could be very lucrative.
Job Responsibilities:
- Primarily program in Python.
- Designing, developing, and maintaining server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
- Integrating user-facing elements developed by frontend engineers with server-side logic.
- Implementing data storage solutions and manage databases.
- Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
- Optimizing applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Collaborating with frontend engineers, product managers, and other team members to define and deliver new features.
- Troubleshooting and debug applications to resolve any issues.
- Writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Skilled in either Python or Java or C++ or C# or Go or Node.js or any other programming language, and interested/able to learn (if necessary) and primarily program in Python.
- Passion for building robust and scalable backend systems.
- Experience in cloud infrastructure with a keen eye for performance optimization.
- Experience with database management systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of testing frameworks.
- Experience with performance optimization techniques.
About Skyrocket Ventures
Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general.
Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us.
After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you.
Thank you, and we wish you a great job search!
Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Industries Software Development and Technology, Information and Media
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