Member of Technical Staff, Infra

The role

You will own the scalability and reliability of services powering AI-native product features and platform applications. This role focuses on backend and infrastructure while supporting end-to-end product development.

What you will do

• Own the architecture of Abaka Expert Platform's shared backend systems
• Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for backend architecture
• Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs
• Design systems for scale, reliability, and evolvability
• Lead technical decisions and design reviews
• Establish backend engineering standards, patterns, and best practices
• Partner with Product and AI/ML teams to translate requirements into systems
• Use modern AI development tools
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing backend infrastructure
• Debug and resolve production issues

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in backend: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, databases, and API design at scale
• Track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or an entire organization
• Capable in a modern frontend framework (React/TypeScript)
• Product-minded
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience building or integrating AI/LLM-powered features and agent designs
• Fluent with modern AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving priorities
• High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping

Nice to have

• Startup or founder experience
• Experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• ML and Deep Learning knowledge and experience

Benefits

• equity
• health
• dental
• vision
• PTO
• flexible work schedule

About the company

Abaka AI is a data partner for AI companies, providing datasets and data collection and annotation services. The company has headquarters in Silicon Valley and teams in Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.