Staff Backend Engineer

Weave•San Francisco, CA

1d•$200,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, reporting directly to the Backend Engineering Manager, that can navigate between data, AI, and backend systems. Stability, performance, and reliability of the AI system are the core responsibilities. You will be asked to develop novel solutions to customer problems, characterize the results, and deliver the solutions into production. You’ll be successful in this role if you can go from idea, to experiment, to testing, to production without getting lost or stuck at one of the steps. We care more about solving problems than using the latest buzz. We prefer simple, well-tested, stable solutions that are dependable, yet impressive.

Requirements

Has worked at an early-stage, product-based startup before (<50 people)
8 years of experience or more of Django in a production environment
Used of LLMs in production
Directly interacting with LLMs without abstraction libraries
Humble, hungry, and smart
Able to move quickly on tasks while producing high-quality results
Pragmatic, analytical thinker. Efficient decision maker
BS in Computer Science or similar field preferred

Nice To Haves

Worked on a product in a regulated domain or where data privacy + security were essential

Responsibilities

Understanding customer problems and translating that into simple solutions
Working with Product and Design to quickly find solutions
Writing performant, simple code. We run Django + Python + Postgres + Redis.
Managing ongoing conceptual and technical complexity while delivering value on Product projects