About the role
We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer with 4+ YOE, ideally from a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment. You should be comfortable owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to deployment, and have a track record of shipping new product features from scratch. Bonus points if you have experience with AI/LLM-native applications and are excited about the prospect of interacting with customers to translate feedback into features.
What you'll do:
- Build out new features and scale our backend capabilities with a primary focus on our core APIs.
- Take ownership of backend services and drive the development of scalable, production-ready solutions.
- Work closely with the product and engineering teams to jointly develop and iterate on the product roadmap for core features.
- Design, build, and maintain our backend stack, including Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, and Temporal.
- Lead backend projects from prototype to production, serving end users in a short amount of time.
- Translate user feedback into features and proactively contribute to user discovery to improve our platform.
About LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex empowers developers to build agents that extract insights and take action on complex enterprise documents. It combines industry-leading document parsing and extraction with a trusted framework for building intelligent agents that reason over documents, adapt to business logic, and scale to production. LlamaIndex is loved by developers and trusted by enterprises. Its open source framework is downloaded more than 4M+ every month and has processed more than 200 million documents on LlamaCloud.
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000
Equity
0.08% - 0.15%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
4+ years
Funding
Total raised
$27.5M
Last stage
Series A
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.