Hebbia aims to provide universal knowledge capture through a user interface that makes every atom of information accessible. The company's mission is to put capable AI in the hands of 1 billion people by 2030, enabling leading finance and legal firms with advanced reasoning, copiloting, and retrieval capabilities.
Requirements
- Proficiency in building backend and API systems using technologies such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
- Working experience with one or more of the following: Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and/or Redis
- Experience building agentic systems or LLM enabled products.
- Frequent user of AI products, especially during the development lifecycle (i.e. Cursor, Claude Code, etc).
- Strong academic background with coursework in data structures, algorithms, and software development is preferred.
- 5+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, with a focus on backend software engineering.
Responsibilities
- Own critical system components: Take complex requirements and turn them into robust, scaled solutions that solve real customer needs.
- Build and iterate on our high-scale document build system that enables constant time latency for indexing any content in the world, regardless of data volume.
- Architect and implement performance-tuning solutions to ensure our systems operate efficiently at scale, minimizing latency and maximizing throughput across millions of documents.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
- Integrate product experience with powerful distributed systems.
- Protect Hebbia’s technical edge via elegant software design, efficient data communication, and sophisticated integrations.
- Leverage the latest software and agentic solutions.
Other
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
- Ability to analyze complex problems, propose innovative solutions, and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience in leading software development projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Enthusiasm for continuous learning and professional growth.
- A passion for exploring new technologies, frameworks, and software development methodologies.
- Embraces rapid prototyping with an emphasis on user feedback
- Autonomous and excited about taking ownership over major initiatives
- Our team works in person 5 days a week at our SoHo office in NYC.
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K
- Catered lunch daily + doordash dinner credit
- 3 months non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent
- $15k lifetime benefit
- competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential
