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Staff Back End Engineer

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Orbis Consultants

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United States , San Francisco

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Salary:

375000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Staff Back End Engineer, AI Products – San Francisco – Hybrid Up to $375k Base + Equity + Opportunity to work with an Ambitious, Young Growing Organisation! This young and agile company, building cutting edge financial services platforms is currently seeking Staff Back End Engineers with experience in AI Products to join their growing team. You will assist with the continuous expansion and optimization of their financial services platforms in a frontier space. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer with experience in AI and LLM’s to take the next step into a challenging position with a company offering significant growth potential.

Job Responsibility:

  • Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions
  • Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
  • Focus on building and scaling services and user facing web applications
  • Build customer centric scalable and performant AI-driven applications and features
  • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes
  • Build new data integrations based on established requirements
  • Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues

Requirements:

  • Several years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices
  • Experience with Generative AI frameworks and tools (RAG, Langchain, Vector database and other emerging agentic frameworks)
  • Prior experience delivering impactful Gen-AI products in production
  • Familiarity with AI/ML use cases such as content generation, summarization or natural language processing (NLP)
  • Familiarity with integrating third-party AI APIs and services using platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Anthropic
  • Ideally you have experience on Vector Databases and Python on the back-end
  • And TypeScript on the front-end
  • And experience leveraging external LLMs

Nice to have:

Prior experience steering AI model output using techniques such as prompt engineering, supervised finetuning, and reinforcement learning would be a bonus

What we offer:

Equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 14, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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