Team8 AI Stealth Startup- Senior Backend-AI Engineer

About Us

We're an AI-powered platform revolutionizing enterprise application development. Backed by

Team8 VC and top-tier angels from the industry, our team of second-time founders brings

proven experience in building and scaling successful tech companies. Small but mighty team with

zero bureaucracy and maximum impact - where your code directly shapes the future of AI-driven

solutions.

About the Role

We're seeking a senior backend engineer with deep AI/ML expertise who's hungry for impact and

takes extreme ownership. You'll architect and build the core platform that powers our AI-driven

enterprise application generation system. This is a senior backend role with platform engineering

depth - you'll design scalable systems, build the infrastructure that enables AI agents to work, and

own the backend from architecture to production.

In This Role You'll

Architect and build the core platform infrastructure - the foundation that powers our AI-driven enterprise application generation

Design, build, and own end-to-end Generative AI services - from first prompt to production rollout including multi-agent workflows - combining RAG, function calling, and tool chaining.

Build and scale Python backend services and AI/ML pipelines with the ability to handle platform-level complexity and scale

Deploy and maintain solutions on AWS cloud infrastructure - contribute to CI/CD, deployment automation, and DevOps tooling

Requirements:

What You Bring



Must have:

6+ years building production-grade backend or ML systems, with experience building platforms from the ground up

Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django) with platform engineering mindset

Deep cloud experience (AWS preferred) - architecting and deploying production systems at scale

Experience architecting and building scalable backend platforms - you've designed core systems that others build on top of

Tangible experience with LLMs - prompting, fine-tuning, or deploying them behind an API (show us what you've shipped)

Data-oriented personality analytical mind, and problem-solving aptitude

Track record of extreme ownership - you ship it, you own it; taking systems from concept to production independently

"Can-do" approach - you've solved hard problems and know how to figure things out

Nice to have:

React, TypeScript, and JavaScript skills for frontend contribution

Hands-on with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, PGVector) or semantic search systems

Experience with common ML toolkits - Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Langchain

Experience implementing policy, safety or red-teaming frameworks around GenAI

Experience with multi-agent AI systems or agentic workflows

Open-source contributions or published research in NLP / generative modeling

Salesforce (SFDC) development experience (Apex, SOQL, Metadata API)

Builder platform experience - systems that enable others to build and create

Experience with graph databases or knowledge graph systems

DevOps and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CI/CD)

Previous startup or high-growth company experience

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