Lead Backend Engineer / Agentic AI

We are actively searching for a Senior Founding Backend Engineer to join our team in Williamsburg on a permanent basis. In this role you will have the ability to function in a lead capacity and lead the charge in the development of our Agentic AI features. You do not have to have prior experience doing this, but this must be something that you have been wanting to do, you just haven’t found the right opportunity to do it.

Specifically, you will work on integrating AI agents and workflows into our platform and ensure seamless interaction between data pipelines, APIs, and LLM-powered services, while maintaining a secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure foundation.

Your Rhythm:

• Design, build, and scale core platform features across front-end and back-end

• Own services built with React TypeScript, NestJS PostgreSQL

• Integrate AI/LLM-powered services and APIs into the platform

• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to connect models with production-ready applications

• Lead technical discussions and contribute to architecture and system design

• Ensure code quality through reviews, testing, and best practices

• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge within the team

• Help shape our engineering culture, practices, and processes

• Influence the roadmap and make build vs buy and scalability trade-offs

Your Vibe:

• 6 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience with expertise in backend development

• Advanced skills in JavaScript/TypeScript

• Experience working with React and modern front-end architectures

• Strong back-end expertise with Node.js, RESTful APIs, async flows

• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)

Our Vibe:

• Relaxed work environment
• 100% paid top of the line health care benefits
• Full ownership, no micro management
• Strong equity package
• 401K
• Unlimited vacation