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Senior Backend Engineer
Littlebird
WorldwideRemote3mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
Role Overview
The Role
- Build AI Memory: Our current memory systems will continue to scale. You'll lead the charge to design and implement our next-generation memory system This means solving hard problems in:
- Scale Our Data & Retrieval Pipelines: As we grow, you'll be responsible for ensuring our data ingestion, hybrid search, and re-ranking pipelines are fast, reliable, and cost-effective.
- Security: Ensure our infrastructure is highly secure and observable, with a focus on speed and cost
- Graph-based Retrieval: How do you query a graph efficiently to provide the agent with rich, structured context, moving beyond simple semantic search?
Required Skills
- Deep experience building and scaling data-intensive backend systems in Python or Go.
- Strong system-design skills and experience working with distributed systems.
- A clear mental model for data structures and their trade-offs. You like to think deeply about how to represent complex information.
- Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, even if you're a little frustrated with their limitations.
- Production experience with modern cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, and PostgreSQL
- A pragmatic approach. You know when to build for the long term and when to ship a clever solution that works now.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment
- Collaborative team culture
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
- Competitive compensation packages including stock and health benefits, paid time off, and parental leave. 401k options for all US-based employees.
- Flexible working hours across multiple time zones
- We love to hear when birds chirp!
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Async
- Paid Time Off
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