Baselayer is looking for a backend engineer to help build and maintain their intelligent business identity platform, which aims to verify businesses, automate KYB, and monitor real-time risk. The role involves developing APIs, designing backend services, managing data pipelines, integrating AI/ML models, and ensuring security and compliance within a regulated environment.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of experience in backend development, working with Python and building APIs
- comfortable working with large-scale data and enjoy optimizing performance for high-volume systems.
- strong interest in AI/ML integration, particularly with LLMs, and are eager to learn about new technologies.
- prioritize security and compliance in backend systems, especially in regulated environments like KYC/KYB.
- keen eye for detail and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code while optimizing for performance.
- knowledge graphs and LLMs for dynamic use cases.
- reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA)
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate them with various data sources, ensuring scalability, high performance, and adaptability for autonomous agents in the GTM space.
- Architect and design core backend services that support KYC/KYB processes, leveraging knowledge graphs and LLMs for dynamic use cases.
- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines for identity data processing, focusing on scalability and performance when handling large-scale, high-performance data flows.
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate models, including reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA), to improve LLMs for specific use cases within the identity space.
- Build the infrastructure to support future AI/ML hires and projects, creating a scalable platform foundation for continued innovation.
- Ensure backend systems meet industry standards for security, privacy, and compliance, particularly around KYC/KYB regulations.
- Write unit tests, debug issues, and monitor backend services for performance and reliability, while continuously improving backend architecture to handle diverse data and use cases.
Other
- Hybrid in SF. In office 3 days/week
- Flexible PTO
- Healthcare, 401K
- Smart, genuine, ambitious team
- highly feedback-oriented. We believe in radical candor and using feedback to get to the next level.
