Senior Backend Software Engineer - Scout AI

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This role is with our partner company that is actively hiring:
Matey AI

About the company

Matey AI (matey.ai)

Tldr: We’re an ex-quant lean team making justice possible in minutes, not months. We just raised a large seed round, have multi-7-figure revenue, 100% user retention, and our most common angel investor is from OpenAI.

About Us

Matey is a well-funded, cutting-edge legal tech AI company on a mission to revolutionize the legal system from the ground up. We are leveraging generative AI and big data to build next-gen tools that redefine how the legal world operates. Our team consists of top-tier talent with backgrounds in machine learning at FAANG, in quantitative research, and in high-frequency trading. If you're passionate about transformative technology and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, Matey is the place for you.

LinkedIn profiles of our three co-founders: CEO, CPO, and Chief Scientist.

About the Role

We’re seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about crafting high-performance, scalable systems in Golang. This is an opportunity to join a growing startup, where you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing core backend infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability for our AI-enabled legal-tech platform.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and Optimize Backend Systems: Write efficient, clean, and maintainable code primarily in Golang. You’ll build the core backend infrastructure, ensuring high performance and scalability.
• Architect and Scale Infrastructure: Design and diagram complex, multi-tiered architectures, including video processing and streaming clusters. Your designs will be capable of scaling from 10 to 1000+ servers, with an understanding of step functions and performance considerations at each tier.
• Enhance Performance at Scale: Utilize high-performance computing techniques and best practices in scalable computing. You’ll pack bits, manage concurrency with CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes), and optimize data structures for speed and efficiency.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with cross-functional teams to integrate frontend and backend systems, although in-depth frontend expertise is not required. Your role focuses on backend excellence, with a strong foundation in architecture.
• Innovate with Technology: Continuously learn and experiment with new technologies like Rust and C/C++, bringing new insights to our tech stack.

Who You Are:

• Experienced Backend Engineer: You have extensive experience with Golang and are skilled in high-performance and scalable computing. You’re comfortable with concepts like CSP and can easily explain why Golang maps are unordered.
• System Architect: You think in terms of architectures, able to design robust, scalable systems and explain them at a high level. You’re familiar with the complexities of scaling clusters to 1000+ machines and understand the shift in paradigms at various scale tiers.
• Tech Enthusiast: You bring an engineering mindset that sees software development as both an art and a science. Whether discussing bit-packing optimizations or the trade-offs in hash map implementations, you have a passion for well-crafted systems.
• Independent Problem-Solver: You have a natural drive to dive into challenges, from backend-specific optimization to scalable architecture. You can break down complex problems and provide elegant solutions without heavy external guidance.

Preferred Skills:

• Proficiency in Golang (experience with Rust or C/C++ is a plus).
• Solid knowledge of high-performance computing, scalable computing, and CSP principles.
• Familiarity with designing, deploying, and managing large-scale clusters, particularly for video processing and streaming.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithm optimizations, and memory management.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• A remote-first, flexible working environment.
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge AI and contribute to the next generation of legal tech.
• A collaborative, growth-driven team of industry experts.

If you’re an engineer who sees software as a craft and takes pride in building systems that scale seamlessly, we’d love to hear from you!