Remote Backend Engineer

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Why It’s Compelling

• Raised $8.5M seed round from Foundation Capital, the CEO of Perplexity, the authors of the GPT paper, and finance leaders from Ramp, SAP, Gusto, and others
• Founded by: Ajay (ACM-ICPC World Finalist, ex-Microsoft architect who scaled Azure’s Finance and DNS platform to handle $200B+ in revenue/yr and trillions of queries/day. Ramnandan (2x exit founder, ex-Microsoft product leader who scaled Azure data & AI products from $1M to $200M+ ARR)
  

Why Join

• True founding engineer status: your fingerprints will shape the stack, the team, and the product
• Tackle hard problems: reasoning agents, fragmented data, workflow orchestration under audit constraints
• Go 0 to 1 repeatedly across a compound product
• Bangalore-based, remote – in-person in 3-9 months from hiring in Bangalore
  

Requirements

• 4–8 years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong builder/founder experience - ideally a founder (CTO) or founding engineer in a VC funded company with traction
• Proficiency in Python, FastAPI/Flask
• Top Tier University - IITs
• Clear, meaningful reason to switch jobs - not just passively looking
• Bonus: Experience with fintech, ERP/accounting systems, or AI infra is great—but not required
• Competitive Programming or Math Olympiad backgrounds - IOI, USACO Camp, USACO Platinum ACM ICPC World FInals, USAMO honorable mention, USAMO winner, MOP qualifier, IMO
• Worked at a startup from seed to Series A/B.
• Competitive programming background (ICPC finalist, Olympiad, etc.)
• Blend of experience across unicorn or big tech companies (Uber, Stripe, Plaid, Lyft, Instacart, Coinbase, Robinhood) and early stage startups
• ETL/data engineering experience
  

• Salary range of $35K–$70K depending on seniority
• Equity range from 0.3%–1% with flexibility on cash vs. equity tradeoff
• Work directly with founder/CEO
• Role is critical to scale the company’s current paying customer base
• 6-day/week highly committed team; early engineering hire (3rd–4th backend)
• Opportunity to help shape foundational backend and AI systems