Founding Engineer, Backend

Falconer • San Francisco, CA

16d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love. As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development, technical direction, and culture.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing APIs or backend systems in different languages (we'll gravitate towards Python and Node.js)
• You can evaluate trade-offs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs)
• You have experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• You make containers look simple, and are the go-to person to discuss Docker or Kubernetes
• You can make anything run in AWS or Google Cloud
• You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments
• You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems

Nice To Haves

• You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)
• You're familiar with vector databases and similarity search

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying
• Research and apply best practices in terms of infra, deployment, and containerization of our products and ML stack
• Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices— the Falconer platform will help you!
• Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices

Benefits

• Generous equity package
• Competitive salary and benefits
• 401(k) retirement account
• The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast
• Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid work for the right candidate
• Our office is in San Francisco, just steps from Caltrain

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level