Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
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
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Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs
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Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows
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Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization
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Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer
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Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)
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Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity
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Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship
Requirements
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3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)
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Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
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Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
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Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
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Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
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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
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Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)
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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.
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Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
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Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
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High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy
About Autonomous Technologies Group
Superintelligent financial advisor
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Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $260,000
Location
New York City
Experience
3+ years
Company
Funding
Total raised
$15M
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
