Backend Engineer

Full time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

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Location: this role is in person in San Francisco

Who We Are:

We are at the forefront of revolutionizing computing with our cutting-edge decentralized platform. Our mission is to deliver unparalleled high-performance services with heterogeneous trust to anyone worldwide. Our platform is uniquely designed to support services with diverse requirements in terms of performance demand, trust model, and fault tolerance. Currently, our focus is on launching our first use cases: a decentralized AI inference service that leverages globally contributed GPUs, and an advanced web3 social app, both seamlessly integrated with our expansive internet-scale mesh network.

As we gear up for growth with our seed round, backed by industry leaders like Lightspeed Faction and Polychain, our team, led by co-founders with PhDs in AI, Blockchain, Math and Systems, is ready to redefine computing.

About The Role:

As a Backend Engineer, you will work with our Product Team and our Full-Stack Engineer to develop the core backend systems and services that power our GPU marketplace and AI inference products. This role requires the candidate to reside in the United States. Team members are expected to work in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area at least 75% of the time.

We are looking for individuals who:

Have a passion for building products and tooling.
Have strong software engineering skills with a proven track record of independently driving or leading scalable projects.
Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
Have experience with microservices and architectures, such as pub/sub and messaging queues.
Expertise in databases, with a deep understanding of database design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning to handle large-scale data efficiently.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with AWS services, including EC2, ElastiCache, and RDS.
Familiarity with Stripe billing.
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.

Compensation: 150-200k base + equity

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