Product Genius - Backend Engineer
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend systems. • Hands-on daily experience with agentic AI coding tools, comfortable managing multiple parallel sessions. • Experience building APIs and data pipelines connecting live systems to downstream analytics or ML systems. • Comfortable picking up any language; we typically use Python, SQL, TypeScript, and React. • Able to jump into a complex, unfamiliar codebase and rapidly get productive in it. • Collaborative at the level of shared context and problem framing; self-sufficient at the level of code. • Strong math or analytical background. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience. • Strong Plus • Strong Plus • You're the person who spins up a newly released tool or framework just to see what's possible. • You've run an LLM on your local machine for fun. • Exposure to containerization and orchestration tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP). • Experience with ClickHouse queries and optimization. • Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities and scope can shift quickly. • E-commerce industry knowledge or empathy—you understand merchant and customer workflows. • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with teams like sales and marketing, including hands-on customer integrations. • What This Is Not • What This Is Not • This isn't a role where tasks arrive fully specified and you execute against a spec. If you want detailed direction before you start, or you'd rather use one AI coding session at a time and review its output line by line forever, this probably isn't the right fit. If you want real ownership over pieces of core infrastructure, the opportunity to contribute to big-picture implementation decisions, and a team that shares context instead of tickets, we'd love to talk.
Benefits
• $165K – $190K • Offers Equity • Role: Backend EngineerLocation: Fully Remote (Headquarters in Boston, MA)Working Hours: 9-5 ESTOnsite: Travel every 8-10 weeks for a multi-day onsite • Role: • Location: • Working Hours: • Onsite: • At Product Genius, we don't tell people what to do—we give them the strategic information to make great decisions on their own. We are generous with one another and committed to creating a collaborative, autonomous environment. • We are a seed-stage startup with a proven product, customers, and leap-frog real-time learning AI technology ($35M DARPA R&D, patented). We tackle challenging problems, building new systems from scratch and scaling our architecture. Join us and grow with our company. • Our Team • Our Team • This is an opportunity to join a high-growth, seed-stage AI startup founded by experts in the field (Ben Vigoda, Steve Papa), with patented, leap-frog real-time learning AI technology. You'll work closely with exceptional AI researchers and software engineers, with the autonomy to make high-impact, strategic decisions that shape our core architecture. • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance. • 401k with matching contributions. • Work-at-home office reimbursement benefit. • Generous paid time off.
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