The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build the core systems that power Merciv’s agentic infrastructure. You’ll architect services that process massive volumes of enterprise data in real-time, build the pipelines that feed our AI engines, and ensure our platform scales reliably for Fortune 500 clients who depend on it daily.
This is a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) role. You’ll own major platform features from architecture to deployment, working closely with ML engineers, product, and our enterprise customers.
What You’ll Do
Who You Are
Bonus
Merciv is an AI-native brand and retail intelligence platform that unifies every source of consumer data brands interact with - internal research, syndicated data, social signals, and more - into a single source of truth, with full auditability into how every insight was reached. The result: smarter decisions around brand strategy, marketing, innovation, inventory optimization, and forecasting that make a real impact on a brand's bottom line. We just closed a $14M seed round, spent a year in stealth as an engineering-heavy group, and are now building out the go-to-market team.
We've proven the product with Fortune 500 clients. Now we're opening it up. We're launching a PLG motion - starting with Pulse, a free consumer product with a credit usage monetization path- to bring Merciv to every brand, not just the ones with enterprise research budgets. This hire is the first bet on that motion.
Salary
$160,000 - $200,000
Location
New York
Total raised
$14.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.