Backend Engineer (Early Stage Startup Experience)

Known is hiring a Backend Engineer to scale its real-time AI and data systems for its AI matchmaking product. The role focuses on hardening backend services, structuring personal user data, building data pipelines and conversational AI systems, and owning data systems for personalization and product experiments.

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Responsibilities

• Reviewing and hardening our core services, including voice AI, AI matchmaking, onboarding and third-party APIs like restaurant booking, so they're ready to scale
• Designing how we organize and structure very personal user data, collected from life-story conversations that average 27 minutes
• Building data pipelines that move user context to matchmaking, voice, onboarding and new product features
• Building real-time systems for conversational AI that are fast, smart and cheap to run
• Building the data systems behind personalization and product experiments, and owning them end to end from design through deployment and scaling

Preferred

• Experience at **consumer (B2C) applications**
• Dice is the go-to career marketplace for tech professionals.
• Centennial, Colorado, USA
• https://www.or-quest.nl/
• H1B Sponsorship
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• Engineering and Development
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• *2022
• (2)
• 2021
• (4)
• 2020
• (5)
• Growth Stage
• Leadership Team

Qualifications

• Experience at an early-​stage startup (Seed to Series B) or as a founding team member
• Experience designing,​ building,​ and deploying production backend systems
• Bachelors degree required
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python,​ Go,​ TypeScript,​ Java)
• 4 -​ 6 years of experience as a backend engineer
• Experience with relational databases,​ caching,​ asynchronous processing,​ and data infrastructure
• Experience designing APIs,​ distributed systems,​ and scalable service architectures
• Experience at **consumer (B2C) applications**

Required skills

• API Design, Asynchronous Processing, Backend Systems, Caching, Consumer (B2C) Applications, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Early-Stage Startup Experience, Go, Java, Python, Relational Databases, Scalable Service Architectures, TypeScript

Preferred skills

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Experience

• 4-6 years