Senior Backend Engineer - Founding Team

We are

Lema AI is a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS company on a mission to ensure modern businesses never fail because of a third-party incident. We’re reimagining the stagnant Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and cyber resilience space by moving companies from reactive compliance to proactive, real-time risk prevention powered by advanced AI.

Already trusted by industry-leading enterprises, Lema is entering a phase of hypergrowth. We’re tripling our team as we build a category-defining platform, guided by a culture of radical ownership, transparency, and fast, cross-functional execution. If you thrive in high-context, high-impact environments, you’ll feel at home here.

About The Role

We’re looking for a a senior backend engineer with 6+ years of experience, playing a key role in building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up. As part of the company’s early engineering team, you’ll help shape both the product and the engineering culture, owning backend architecture, leading end-to-end feature development, and driving technical excellence while collaborating closely with product, design, and infrastructure in a fast-growing environment.

What You’ll Do

Be one of our first 10 engineers, shaping both our product and our engineering culture.
Define and evolve the backend architecture, infrastructure and development best practices for a fast-growing team.
Own features end-to-end - from concept and design discussions to implementation, deployment and observability.
Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines.
Continuously improve developer workflows - identify friction, integrate new tools, automate repetitive tasks and champion engineering excellence.
Lead and mentor a small team of engineers: drive planning, break down work, ensure quality delivery and help hire exceptional talent.
Collaborate with experienced peers - engineers, PMs and designers - who’ve built large-scale systems at top-tier companies.

Requirements:

What You Bring

A seasoned backend engineer (6+ years) who thrives on building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up.
Experienced in designing and scaling modern microservices architectures (both BE and FE integration).
Capable of taking complex features from design to deployment, owning every stage of the backend lifecycle - while guiding others to do the same.
Pragmatic about code quality: confident refactoring, simplifying and deleting code when needed.
Comfortable leading code reviews, defining engineering standards and collaborating across product, design and infrastructure.

Why Join Lema AI

Impact: Build a category-defining platform that safeguards how modern businesses operate.
Ownership: Join a culture that gives you full context, autonomy, and trust to drive outcomes.
Velocity: Work with exceptional peers in a high-energy, low-bureaucracy environment.
Growth: Shape a company that’s scaling rapidly, backed by Tier 1 investors and visionary customers.