Backflip is building a foundation model for mechanical design, unifying the world’s scattered engineering knowledge into an intelligent, end-to-end design environment to enable anyone to imagine a solution and hit “print.”
Requirements
- You’re fluent in React, Node.js, and Python, and comfortable designing APIs, services, and data flows end-to-end.
- You’ve shipped large production systems, ideally ones that touch ML, data, or search.
- You have experience with AWS databases, and you enjoy thinking about indexing, search, and vector data systems.
- You’ve worked with large-scale data processing pipelines.
- You have an interest in math, geometry, topology, rendering, or computational geometry.
- You’ve built software in 3D printing, CAD, or computer graphics domains.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable full-stack systems using React, Node.js, and Python.
- Deploy an ML model to production: you’ve done it before, and you’ll do it again: build robust products that users love.
- Collaborate closely with ML and data teams to integrate models and pipelines into real-world products.
- Architect backend systems around AWS services, databases, and modern data infrastructure.
- Own performance and scale: build APIs, indexes, and search systems that make high-dimensional data feel instant.
- Contribute to product direction: work with design, AI, and leadership to turn technical capabilities into delightful user experiences.
- (Optional but exciting): advance 3D visualization, geometry, or rendering engines that make engineering feel magical.
Other
- You’re a strong generalist who can build, ship, and scale complex full-stack systems.
- You’re pragmatic, product-minded, and enjoy owning features from concept to deployment.
- You collaborate naturally with AI, design, and data teams, and love turning complexity into clarity.
- This is a rare opportunity to create the interfaces, infrastructure, and experiences that bring a new kind of intelligence to the physical world, and help define how AI becomes a tool for the imagination.
- You love building systems that are elegant, fast, and deeply technical, and want to see them shape the real world.
