Member of Technical Staff (Backend)

New York City
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

About us

ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.

Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).

Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.

About the Role You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs

  • Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows

  • Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization

  • Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer

  • Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)

  • Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity

  • Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship

Requirements

  • 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)

  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)

  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

  • Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)

  • Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance

  • Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure

Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration

  • Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)

  • Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations

Why Join ATG

We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.

  • Work on AI with a massive market opportunity

  • Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors

  • High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy

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Job details

Salary

$180,000 - $260,000

Location

New York City

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameAutonomous Technologies Group
IndustryFinancial Technology and Services
Team Size8

Funding

Total raised

$15M

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Collaborative Fund
Fusion Fund
BBox Group

Founders

Daniel Kobran

Daniel Kobran

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Dillon Erb

Dillon Erb

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.