- Company Name
- EvenUp
- Job Title
- Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Agents
- Job Description
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Job title
Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Agents
Role Summary
Design, develop, and scale backend systems for an AI‑driven legal technology platform, leading complex projects, mentoring junior engineers, and driving engineering best practices in a fast‑growth startup environment.
Expectations
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of high‑performance, scalable backend solutions that support AI and data‑processing workloads.
- Mentor and coach new engineers, fostering a culture of quality, code reviews, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate across cross‑functional teams to translate product requirements into robust technical architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement scalable, reliable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using modern languages (Python, Go, Java, C++).
- Integrate large‑scale machine learning models and AI components into production systems.
- Build and maintain infrastructure on AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, ensuring secure, resilient, and cost‑efficient deployments.
- Develop internal frameworks, libraries, and reusable components to accelerate product delivery.
- Participate in architecture reviews, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Champion testing (unit, integration, load) and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.
- Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer to junior team members.
Required Skills
- 5+ years backend engineering experience; strong grasp of distributed systems and microservices.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++; clean, maintainable code production.
- Proven track record of building high‑throughput APIs and services in cloud environments.
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling.
- Knowledge of test‑driven development, code review standards, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
- Leadership mindset with mentorship experience.
Optional/Bonus
- Hands‑on experience with AI/ML systems, especially generative models or legal‑tech applications.
- Familiarity with data science pipelines, large‑scale data processing, and ML model serving.
- Prior scaling of backend systems in a rapidly growing startup.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.