Boam

Senior Backend Engineer

Budapest. Posted 11 months ago

The role

You will own core parts of Scala and Python data and agent infrastructure. You will design, build, and scale existing and greenfield systems to keep data fresh and APIs fast.

What you will do

  • Design and build resilient backend services and APIs
  • Own critical data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery
  • Prepare systems for 100x data growth over the next three years
  • Build reliability and test coverage into the code itself
  • Improve performance, scalability, and observability across the stack
  • Work closely with data/ML to productize AI-powered agents end to end
  • Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, pairing, and mentorship
  • Optimize for real impact, customer outcomes, and fast iteration
  • Use next-gen AI tools to improve code quality and velocity

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
  • Strong experience with Scala, Python or functional / JVM languages
  • Comfortable with distributed systems, data modeling, and high-volume pipelines
  • Enjoy greenfield work: from first principles design to deploy and monitoring
  • Thrive without heavy process, QA buffers, or endless safeguards
  • Bias to ship, measure, and refine rather than over-architect
  • Motivated by solving real user problems, not just abstract puzzles
  • Excited to work where AI/ML is deeply embedded in the product

Benefits

  • No-politics, high-trust, low-ego, and high-talent team
  • Own mission-critical systems used by top-tier enterprise customers
  • Work directly with founders & Head of Engineering
  • High autonomy, real impact, and clear ownership from day one
  • Top-tier compensation with meaningful equity upside

Before you apply

  • Intro Call
  • Deep Dive walkthrough of past engineering work
  • Work Sample solving a real Boam-style technical challenge
  • Founder Conversation on ambition, values, and ownership

About the company

Boam AI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals into structured, reliable intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide.