What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Backend Engineer (Rust) position at Renumerate?
Onsite Hybrid — San Francisco, CA
160,000 – 225,000 USD per year Equity
About Renumerate
We’re a venture-backed Bay Area team on a mission to leverage AI in a practical way to help consumer-focused subscription companies drive better customer retention and gain real-time insight into what motivates their subscribers to stay.
Build the future of customer retention
Chances are you’ve subscribed to a product or service—and chances are higher you’ve seen a terrible cancellation workflow. What if the experience was seamless for both businesses and subscribers? That’s where Renumerate comes in.
We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to architect the systems, infrastructure, and AI-powered workflows that will power our platform.
As Our Founding Backend Engineer, You’ll
You Might Be a Great Fit If You Have
160,000 – 225,000 USD per year Equity
About Renumerate
We’re a venture-backed Bay Area team on a mission to leverage AI in a practical way to help consumer-focused subscription companies drive better customer retention and gain real-time insight into what motivates their subscribers to stay.
Build the future of customer retention
Chances are you’ve subscribed to a product or service—and chances are higher you’ve seen a terrible cancellation workflow. What if the experience was seamless for both businesses and subscribers? That’s where Renumerate comes in.
We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to architect the systems, infrastructure, and AI-powered workflows that will power our platform.
As Our Founding Backend Engineer, You’ll
- Design and build the core backend services and APIs for our product.
- Lead development in Rust with PostgreSQL and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with ML engineers to integrate AI-driven insights and automation.
- Build scalable systems to handle subscription data, retention experiments, and real-time reporting.
- Establish backend engineering best practices, deployment pipelines, and architecture foundations.
- Collaborate closely with frontend and product to ship features quickly and reliably.
You Might Be a Great Fit If You Have
- 3 years of experience building backend systems and APIs.
- Proficiency in Rust (or a strong systems/backend language and willingness to dive deep into Rust).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and deployments.
- Comfort with databases like PostgreSQL and data modeling.
- Excitement about building resilient, high-performance infrastructure from scratch.
- (Bonus) Familiarity with subscription/e-commerce/payment systems.
- (Bonus) Experience with ML/AI integrations.
- Competitive salary: 160,000 – 225,000 USD per year
- Meaningful equity ownership in the company
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k
- A role where you shape the company, culture, and product from day one
Salary : $160,000 - $225,000