Staff Backend Engineer

The role

You will lead the technical direction of Scala and Python data and agent infrastructure. You will own long-term architecture and scale existing and greenfield services.

What you will do

• Design and build resilient backend services and APIs
• Own high-level system architecture and major technical decisions across multiple systems
• Oversee critical data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery
• Architect systems for 100x data growth over the next three years
• Lead major cross-team initiatives and complex project delivery end to end
• Partner with ML leaders on model integration and agent architecture
• Build reliability and test coverage into the code itself with no separate QA layer
• Improve performance, scalability, and observability across our stack
• Mentor engineers through direction, feedback, and day-to-day support
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, pairing, and clear technical standards

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating complex, production backend systems
• Deep experience with high-throughput, large distributed systems
• Strong experience with Scala, Python, or functional / JVM languages
• Comfortable with distributed systems, data modeling, and high-volume pipelines
• History of providing technical coaching and direction to senior engineers
• Experience introducing new technologies and patterns across the team
• Enjoy greenfield work: from first principles design to deploy and monitoring
• Thrive without heavy process, QA buffers, or endless safeguards
• Ship, measure, refine over over-architecting, build foundations when needed
• Motivated by solving real user problems, not just abstract puzzles
• Excited to work where AI/ML is deeply embedded in the product, not bolted on

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 and the 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
• Work Sample
• Founder / Leadership Conversation

About the company

Boam AI builds managed data solutions that transform unstructured signals into structured intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions.