Clipbook
Founding Backend Engineer – AI & Data
United States
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$220kDetected 118 days ago
PythonNode.jsDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLBigQueryVector DatabasesAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDKafkaMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringComputer VisionLLMsRAGAgentic AIDesign SystemsEmbedded SystemsHardware DesignLeadership
About the role
- You'd be one of the first engineers at Clipbook - joining a small but mighty engineering team with engineers from Meta, Stripe, and AWS.
Responsibilities
- Architect & build core backend systems.
- Drive architectural decisions across our backend stack (Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL).
- Own features from concept → deployment → observing users rely on what you built.
- Design scalable data infrastructure.
- Build and maintain pipelines for ingesting, normalizing, deduplicating, indexing, and querying massive, multi-modal datasets (text, audio, video) across news, social media, policy, and more.
- Design systems that scale. Build systems that will hold up as we grow 10x, while being practical about what to invest in now vs. what can wait.
- Collaborate closely with users. Join customer calls, hear what's working and what isn't, and build in response. Rapidly iterate to deliver solutions that genuinely move the needle for comms/public affairs teams.
- As one of the first engineers, you'll influence everything - code quality, system design principles, documentation standards, and how we build as a team.
- 2-10+ years building and scaling production backend systems.
- Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast. We care about getting things into users' hands and iterating from there.
Requirements
- Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems), with deeper expertise in one or more areas - and a desire to keep expanding your breadth over time.
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD.
- We care more about what you ship than when or where you work, but this is an early-stage company growing fast.
Nice to have
- Startup founder or early-stage experience is a huge plus.
Compensation
- Salary: $150K-$220K
- Growth: A clear path to engineering leadership as we scale
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO
- Computer vision or multimodal model experience (audio, video, image).
- Equity: Early-stage grant with significant upside
Company info
- Develop performant APIs and services. Create robust interfaces and internal services that power our product end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, and a seamless experience for customers.
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