Software Engineer, Backend
AnaraAI Research company
San Francisco$150K - $200KSenior
Y Combinator
Founders, Inc
Orange Collective
Pioneer Fund
Rebel Fund
TRAC VC
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Backend engineers build and scale the platform supporting Anara’s AI-powered research tools.
- •Backend engineers build the platform that supports Anara’s functionality.
- •They work on scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools and collaborate with the engineering team on improving response quality, latency, and robustness.
- •Key Responsibilities Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools.
- •Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness.
- •Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows.
- •Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast.
- •Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability.
- •Requirements You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder.
- •Product at Anara moves lightning fast.
- •We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months.
- •You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
- •You’ve worked on back end agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures.
- •Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project).
- •Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.
Required skills
LLMsPythonNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressMongoDBRedisElasticsearchAWSGoogle CloudAzureCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
A/B TestingRoadmappingPRDsOKRsDesign ThinkingWireframingPrototypingProgram ManagementProject Management
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, remote work
Tech stack
LLMsPythonNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressMongoDBRedisElasticsearchAWSGoogle CloudAzureCI/CDDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaGitLinuxJiraConfluencePostmanREST APIgRPCRabbitMQCelery