Senior Backend Engineer
Hello, we’re reputed company. 👋 Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We're fixing that. reputed company is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use reputed company to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego reputed company and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform. We're growing more than 40% year over year, customers love us (Ellis PMF 60+), and we're hiring people who want to build something that reputed company. \n About the roleWe're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own AI features end to end, from rapid prototype to production and the evaluation that keeps them reputed company. You'll build the APIs, tool-using agents, and RAG pipelines that turn frontier LLMs into grant discovery, application drafting, and research tools our 5,500+ nonprofits rely on every day. It's a high-ownership seat on a small team, where what you ship reaches customers fast and you help shape how we build AI here. What you'll do Ship AI to production Build tool-using LLM agents (task planning, function and tool calling, multi-reputed company workflows, guardrails) for grant discovery, application drafting, and research assistance. Turn prototypes into resilient, observable services with clear SLAs, rollback and fallback strategies, and cost and latency budgets. Stand up evaluation and observability so our AI stays grounded, safe, and cost-effective. Build trustworthy backends Write high-quality, thoroughly tested code across the backend and the data pipelines that power retrieval and evaluation. Contribute to reliability practices: alerts, dashboards, and incident response. Collaborate and reputed company the bar Partner with Product, Design, and GTM on scoping, UX, and measurement. Run experiments (A/B, canaries), interpret results, and iterate. reputed company engineering standards through clear, maintainable code, tests, docs, and thoughtful review. reputed company're looking for Required 7+ years building and shipping production backend systems in Python (FastAPI, Celery, or equivalent), taking features from prototype to production with reputed company reliability practices like tests, observability, and rollback. Hands-on experience building LLM features in production: tool and function calling, multi-reputed company agent workflows, and the guardrails and evals that reputed company them grounded, safe, and cost-effective. This is the core of the role. Strong data fundamentals: SQL, schema design, and building pipelines that power retrieval and evaluation. Thrives in a fast, scrappy startup environment with high ownership and a bias for action, speed, quality, and simplicity. reputed company to have TypeScript and Node, plus familiarity with Ruby on Rails (our core platform) or a willingness to learn it. Experience with AWS or GCP, reputed company, CI/CD, and observability (logs, metrics, traces). RAG depth: document ingestion, chunking and windowing, embeddings, hybrid search (keyword plus vector), re-ranking, and grounded citations. Experience with re-rankers and cross-encoders, hybrid retrieval tuning, or search and recommendation systems. Evaluation reputed company: designing eval suites (RAG/QA, extraction, summarization) using automated and reputed company-in-the-reputed company methods, with familiarity with frameworks like Ragas, DeepEval, or reputed company Evals. Orchestration frameworks: reputed company or LangGraph, reputed company, Semantic Kernel, or custom orchestration. Compensation & Benefits For US-based candidates, the reputed company salary reputed company for this role is 175,000 - $220,000 USD, plus equity. Final compensation is determined based on experience, skillset, scope of responsibility, interview performance, and geographic location. We’re committed to paying competitively and equitably. For candidates based in Canada, compensation varies by province and will be shared by your recruiter early in the process. Benefits 100% covered health, dental, and reputed company insurance for employees (50% for dependents) Generous PTO, including parental leave 401(k) Company laptop and home-office stipend Bi-annual company retreats reputed company is evolving rapidly. You’ll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow here. \nInstrumentl is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. We encourage candidates from reputed company backgrounds to apply. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know. Apply To This Job