Founding Backend Engineer (GCP, Firestore, BigQuery)

Evermuse is seeking a seasoned Founding Backend Engineer.

This is a LOW SALARY and HIGH EQUITY opportunity. You will be the fourth founding member of an already venture-backed early startup.

WHO WE ARE

Located in New York, NY with an Israeli Founder, Evermuse (www.evermuse.com) is building an AI-powered decision-engine for product teams. Our mission is to help companies build more human-centered products and ultimately - a more human-friendly world. Based on customer calls, feedback tools, market news and more - we provide teams with a dynamically generated suggested roadmap, a chat interface that can answer any product question, and a briefs newsfeed that keeps the product team up to speed on any emerging patterns or important developments.

We raised a pre-Seed round led by Character VC (www.character.vc) – a fund launched by world-renowned Product experts, Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint, formerly of Google Ventures).

INVESTOR PITCH

See our investor pitch: 

https://remake.docsend.com/view/95znd4m3pmc3nuiv

WHO YOU ARE

A hands-on coder and born infrastructure fiend who can make robust and stable infrastructure happen fast, solving one problem after another at a killer pace, like we do for business, product, and fundraising. We need a GREAT backend engineer / architect who likes to simplify complexity, a critical thinker, and a great team leader.

Expect a series of cutting-edge projects, using the latest AI models and systems. Expect to be the primary backend coder for a year at least. (We have great full stack engineers who do much of our frontend via vibecoding, so you'll get a lot of help from Product on that front).

THE ROLE

• Architecting the next generation of Evermuse.
• Creating the simple concepts and functions that will lay the foundation for a growing complexity.
• Learning new platforms, tools, and APIs regularly.
• Leading the team in writing beautiful, well-documented, and well thought-out code.
• Using the latest AI coding tools to build great products faster.
• Occasionally engaging with our tech advisors, who are top engineers from Google, Amazon, and more - and discuss architectural decisions.
• Keeping secure coding practices from our cyber advisors and helping us achieve SOC2 compliance.
• Tinkering with state-of-the-art tech, including work with the latest AI models and APIs.
• Growing and leading a team that values doing great work together.

THE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience building scalable, robust production systems on Google Cloud.
• Strong familiarity with Firestore, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage, and how to use them to build a robust data lake / data warehouse system that can handle massive amounts of data.
• Methodical thinking, ability to architect and build complex systems based on requirements and scaling concerns.
• A love of getting stuff done, and fire in your belly.
• Endless curiosity and love of cutting-edge tech
• Familiarity with web technologies like TypeScript, React, and Firebase.
• An inclination towards positive impact. 
• Machine learning, and experience with LLM development is a plus.

TECH STACK

• Google Cloud
• Firebase / Firestore
• Google Cloud Storage
• Google BigQuery
• Node.js / React / Next.js / Typescript
• Inngest workflow management
• OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini APIs
• Additional AI Ops SDKs and APIs.

If this sounds like something you'd love to be a part of, we'd love to hear from you!