Senior Role Overview
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our fast-paced team to design, develop, and implement new features for LittleBird, our personalized AI teammate for Mac and Android. This position reports directly to the technical leadership team and will play a crucial role in designing and implementing critical BE features and infrastructure as we grow.
Our team is well-funded >$4m, small and growing - this is a great time to join and contribute to foundational aspects of our growth! Little Bird is remote-first; we speak a few languages, love to collaborate, and like to build things that we enjoy using. Our co-founders have experience building data, consumer hardware, and interactive products, including selling a previous venture for >$250m.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with R&D and Leadership to design scalable architecture
- Develop and maintain high-throughput backend services that support AI features including search, informational retrieval, RAG, and Knowledge Graph
- Build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy and scale
- Understand and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure
Required Skills
- Minimum of 4 years of hands-on software development experience with a strong professional experience with Python, and one other of the following (Typescript, Rust, Java or C++)
- Passion for working on problems involving concurrency, data retrieval (internet-scale), and performance tuning in complex systems.
- Ability to autonomously work on weakly defined projects that require an experiment-driven and collaborative mindset
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired Experience
- Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase
- Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans
Benefits
Remote-friendly work environment