Founding Engineer, Backend

The role

You will build an AI-powered knowledge platform. You will participate in the entire product development lifecycle including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying.

What you will do

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle
• Research and apply best practices in infra, deployment, and containerization
• Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and make recommendations

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing APIs or backend systems in different languages
• Can evaluate trade-offs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs)
• Experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Can make anything run in AWS or Google Cloud

Nice to have

• Developed products with LLMs before
• Built your own agents
• Familiar with vector databases and similarity search

Benefits

• Generous equity package
• Competitive salary and benefits
• 401(k) retirement account
• Spec'd out MacBook
• Dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear

About the company

Falconer is transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. They are building an AI-powered knowledge platform.