Atg
Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
New York City, Remote. Posted 16 months ago
The role
You will architect, build, and maintain distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure. This work powers AI research and deployment through scalable compute and robust data flows.
What you will do
- Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs
- Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows
- Set up and manage databases including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization
- Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer
- Implement observability best practices
- Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity
- Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship
Required qualifications
- 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
- Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
- Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.)
Nice to have
- Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)
- Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations
About the company
ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Autonomous is an agentic wealth manager built on this foundation.