Founding Backend Engineer - Harnham : Job Details

FOUNDING BACKEND ENGINEER

LLM STARTUP

BROOKLYN, NY (ONSITE)

$200,000 - $250,000 BASE

THE COMPANY

Harnham is partnered with a cutting-edge startup in the technology space looking to ease the burden of LLM development and deployment. They are seed-funded and looking to hire multiple founding engineers across various pieces of their stack. This role will focus on backend development in Rust.

THE ROLE – Founding Backend Engineer

This position will report directly to the CTO and completely own the design and development of this company's backend. You will work with ML and Frontend Engineers to develop a performative and scalable, AI-integrated applications. Further responsibilities include:

• Leading the design and architecture of their backend
• Working with a team building at a high rate of speed where being able to operate autonomously is a must
• Open-source infrastructure
• Focusing on optimization, evaluation, observability, and integrations
• Dealing with massive amounts of data

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Extensive experience in Rust
• Experience working at a high rate of speed
• Backend design and development from 0-1
• Comfort working in an evolving, dynamic space where you'll need to wear multiple hats.
• Must be able to work in their Brooklyn office 5 days a week

THE BENEFITS

As a Founding Backend Engineer, you will receive a base of up to $250,000 + SIGNIFICANT equity.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Danny Macdonald via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Backend Development, Software Engineer, Rust, Clickhouse, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, PostgreS, Open-Source