Backend Engineer
About The Position
We build AI for local governments, serving cities across 10+ states. Our AI tools help city staff research, draft reports, and benchmark against other cities. Our mission is to augment every local government workflow with LLMs and harness the collective knowledge of US cities to improve decision-making. We have raised $4.5M from investors and our team of 7 is based in San Francisco with a smaller presence in New York. We believe that improving the software used by public servants is the highest-leverage way to better our cities and help them reignite the American Dream.
Requirements
- 3+ years building production systems at high-velocity startups, from early stage through scaling
- Track record of shipping and owning AI products end-to-end
- Experience integrating AI into product workflows—using LLMs, building with agentic frameworks, or deploying AI-powered features
- Bias toward action and pragmatic decision-making over perfect solutions
- Comfortable context-switching between architecture decisions, implementation, and cross-functional collaboration
- Proficiency with our tech stack including Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Supabase, Selenium, NextJS, TailwindCSS, shadcn, LLM APIs
- Based in SF or NY and want to work onsite 5 days a week
Responsibilities
- Design and scale a horizontal AI agent that works across all departments, cities, and states.
- Automatically process millions of government records to create agent-legible knowledge graphs.
Benefits
- Highly competitive base and equity compensation
- Lunch and dinner provided via DoorDash
- Top of the market medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Gym membership subsidy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
