About the position
As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product. This year we are setup for rapid growth to several thousands of expert users that rely on Samaya daily. You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining our internal engineering practices maintain a high standard allowing us to scale. Instant QA: Our custom build Question Answer system using state of the art in house models and retrieval systems, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence. You will ensure that we scale these system to work reliably while enabling rapid improvements with good engineering standards. Reducing latency will be a critical goal to enable a near instant experience for users and unlocking better quality within a restricted budget. Agents: You will enable expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights. In this role, you will enable fast, reliably, AI experiences to thousands of users and be the foundation of how our engineering team and engineering cultures grows!
Responsibilities
- Develop and own key system components and services to be fast and reliable at scale
- Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents
- Provide engineering best practices across our entire product, backend, and ML stack
- Take ambiguous business/product problems and build extensible systems that allow us to build fast and adapt to user needs
Requirements
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
- 5+ years experience in tech industry
- Proactive and eager to take ownership
- Fast iteration based on user engagement
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in backend or distributed systems
- Experience in data/indexing/search systems at scale
- Expertise in best practices of building for scale, performance, and engineering best practices
- Excited about growing as a mentor to the engineering team
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, and short-term disability) to support your health and wellbeing
- Support your long-term financial well-being with 401K (US) and enhanced Pension contributions (UK)
- Flexibility to rest and recharge with unlimited PTO
- Travel budget to provide opportunities for learning and collaboration by attending conferences, visitings other offices, and more
- Office equipment allowance to enhance the comfort of your workspace
- Hybrid work environment to promote balance and flexibility, with typically 3 (or more) days in the office per week
