Qualified is seeking a Senior AI Backend Engineer to develop and scale the core backend systems of their Agentic Marketing Platform, integrating AI technologies like LLMs and embeddings to enhance product capabilities and explore new frontiers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building modern web applications, with a recent focus on leveraging AI/ML technologies.
- Strong background in backend development with proven proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python, or Go.
- Hands-on experience in AI-driven application development, including experiment setup, dataset curation, model training, offline evaluation, error analysis, deployment, and online evaluation.
- Experience working with SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Strong software engineering practices, including coding, unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems that are critical to our product's functionality and fuel business growth.
- Determine and implement the best ways to incorporate LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies into our platform, exploring new possibilities and applying learnings to enhance product offerings.
- Design and implement robust data models for managing and standardizing data from diverse sources, optimizing these models to support RAG models' training and inference processes efficiently.
- Ensure the core functionality of our product is stable, reliable, and continuously improving.
- Embrace a product-focused mindset to tackle technical challenges related to quality and performance.
- Mentor fellow engineers, champion product-focused values, and help establish and maintain standards of engineering excellence across the team.
Other
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to translate complex technical concepts into business impact and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Foundational Impact: As a key member of a small, impactful team, you'll directly shape our approach to AI integration and backend systems, influencing the trajectory of our product from day one.
- High-Growth Environment: Join us at a pivotal stage where you can establish best practices that will scale with our rapid growth and expansion.
- Cutting-Edge AI: Work on unique and challenging problems related to integrating AI into a B2B platform, helping to define standards for a new generation of applications.
- Close Leadership Collaboration: Partner with leadership and product teams to ensure technology is integrated into our strategic decision-making.
