Member of Technical Staff, Infra
$140,000–$200,000 year
On-siteMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the architecture of Abaka Expert Platform's shared backend systems, including core services, data models, and APIs that power AI-native product features at scale. Define long-term technical strategy for backend architecture across the organization and lead highest-stakes design reviews. Design and ship backend services while establishing engineering standards and patterns adopted by all product teams. Partner with Product and AI/ML teams to translate requirements into production-grade systems, improving performance, reliability, and observability of existing infrastructure. Debug and resolve production issues using modern AI development tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Work the full path from UI to backend when needed to support end-to-end product development.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
- Strong expertise in backend: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, and API design at scale
- A track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or an entire organization—and of decisions that aged well
- Capable in a modern frontend framework (React/TypeScript) and able to work the full path from UI to backend when needed
- Product-minded: you push back on unnecessary complexity and think about the customer outcome the system enables
- Excellent communication skills—able to make complex tradeoffs legible to both engineers and leadership
- Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered features and agent designs
- Fluent with modern AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of your daily workflow
- Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving priorities
- High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping
Desired Qualifications
- Startup or founder experience
- Experience building consumer-facing products at scale
- ML and Deep Learning knowledge and experience
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