Senior Backend Software Engineer - Recruiting from Scratch : Job Details

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

We're looking for a backend legend to join our early-stage teamin NYC. You'll be tackling challenging infrastructure, scaling, and backend projects alongside our team of best-in-class engineers.

Working at the very forefront of AI, you'll build products that democratize and shape this technological revolution. We're handling hundreds of requests per second and expect to 10x that number in the next year. We have great latency and uptime and are looking for ways to make it even better. There are also lots of opportunities to build out additional ML solution on top of our platform.

Requirements:

• Hunger to ship
• ️ Battle-tested experience working on high-velocity engineering teams (3+ years)
• ️ Thrive in ambiguity — take initiative, lead projects, and architect systems with incomplete information
• Live in NYC — join us 4 days/week in our awesome Nomad office
• Deep Postgres knowledge — understanding internal mechanisms is huge plus
• Backend powerhouse — strong systems design and implementation skills
• ️ Infrastructure & DevOps expertise — build and maintain robust scalable systems

Why you'll love it:

• Work on high-impact engineering challenges at the cutting edge of AI tech
• Join a team of ambitious, smart people all pushing to be their best
• Free lunches at our fantastic Nomad office
• Comprehensive health insurance and benefits
• 4-day in-office culture (we value face time but respect your life)

Ways to stand out:

• Experience scaling products under heavy load
• Hardcore engineering chops — we need someone with the dog in them!
• Database wizardry — being a king in databases will fast-track your application
• Great intuition for making technical decisions
• Clear communication skills, especially with ambiguous requirements

Tech Stack:

• Python Flask
• Postgres
• Redis
• DevOps & infrastructure tools

Ready to build the future of AI?

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