Software Engineer - Backend / Fullstack

New York, NY
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

What it means to be an early engineer

Joining Vellum this early means that you’re going to play a huge part in guiding both the technical and cultural evolution of the company. Together, we’re going to face the hardest technical challenges this journey has to offer head-on. As the team grows, you’ll be the battle hardened expert that everyone looks towards for guidance.

With great power comes great responsibility 🙂

What you’re signing up for

  • Tackling our most difficult (and interesting) problems - prompt chaining, fine-tuning infrastructure, and multimodality, just to name a few
  • Designing, architecting, and building robust critical infrastructure
  • Owning our most important backend systems
  • Defining and scoping green-field projects that move the company forward
  • Working closely with customers to understand what the need, figuring out how to make them successful, and owning the solutions end to end
  • Serving as a cultural pillar of the team
  • Navigating a fast-moving, highly competitive landscape

Our stack

In case you’re curious:

  • Google Cloud Platform - as our cloud provider
  • Postgres - as our primary database
  • Python - what we write our backend in
  • Django - for our webservers
  • Flask - for our microservices
  • Typescript - what we write our frontend in
  • React - as our frontend framework

Working at Vellum


  • We’re laser focused on helping companies bring AI into production and providing real business value. Decision making is simple: if what we do allows our users to increase how many use cases of AI they’re able to successfully put into production, then we do it!
  • Don’t just cut corners. Cut the right corners (i.e. reduce scope, not quality). What can you do with 10% of your time to get 90% of the desired impact? Now that you only spent 10% of the time on this task, imagine how much more can be done with the rest of your time!
  • Everyone is a 1000x engineer/designer/pm when they’re passionate about the problems they’re solving and love the people they’re working with
  • Because we trust each other, we can move fast and have fun doing it 😄

About Vellum

Vellum is an enterprise AI development platform that helps companies build, evaluate, and deploy mission-critical AI products and LLM-powered applications. It provides a unified suite of tools — including workflow automation, prompt engineering, testing/evaluation, and production monitoring — to help teams take AI from prototype to production. Customers include enterprises such as Drata, Redfin, Headspace, and Swisscom.

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Job details

Salary

$140,000 - $200,000

Location

New York, NY

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameVellum
Team Size23

Funding

Total raised

$25M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

LLeaders Fund
Y Combinator
SSocii Capital
Rebel Fund
EEastlink Capital

Founders

Noa Flaherty

Noa Flaherty

Co-Founder & CTO

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Sidd Seethepalli

Sidd Seethepalli

Co-Founder & CTO

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Akash Sharma

Akash Sharma

Co-Founder & CEO

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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.