Founding Engineer, Backend

As a Founding Backend Engineer at Cenna, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our cutting-edge agentic services platform. You will design, build, and deploy core backend infrastructure and services, driving the technical vision of our AI-powered products from inception to scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable backend systems and APIs for our agentic services platform in production environments
• Build robust, secure backend services that power platform functionality at scale
• Design and optimize database schemas and data pipelines for production workloads
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system architecture and AI-driven solution standards
• Ensure reliability, performance, and security of production backend systems
• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices
• Partner with product management to translate requirements into impactful production-ready solutions
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for production backend services

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience with proven track record of building and maintaining production-level systems
• Expertise in Python and backend frameworks like FastAPI, Django, or Flask deployed in production environments
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and application security in production systems
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database design, optimization, and management at scale
• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and operating backend services in production
• Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation for production applications
• Experience with monitoring, debugging, and optimizing production backend systems
• Knowledge of handling production incidents, system reliability, and performance optimization
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot production issues under pressure
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

Nice to Have

• Experience building production backend systems for AI/ML technologies or agentic systems
• Familiarity with cybersecurity tools or frameworks in production environments
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) for production deployments
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for production backend services
• Experience with message queues, caching systems, and distributed systems in production
• Track record of scaling backend systems and handling high-traffic production workloads
• Contributions to open-source backend projects used in production
• Prior experience thriving in a fast-paced startup environment shipping production features rapidly