Founding Engineer, Backend

At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love.

As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development, technical direction, and culture.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying

• Research and apply best practices in terms of infra, deployment, and containerization of our products and ML stack

• Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices—the Falconer platform will help you!

• Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices

Who you are

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing APIs or backend systems in different languages (we'll gravitate towards Python and Node.js)

• You can evaluate trade-offs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs)

• You have experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

• You make containers look simple, and are the go-to person to discuss Docker or Kubernetes

• You can make anything run in AWS or Google Cloud

• You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments

• You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems

Bonus points

• You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)

• You're familiar with vector databases and similarity search

• Perks and benefits:

• Generous equity package

• Competitive salary and benefits

• 401(k) retirement account

• The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast

• Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid work for the right candidate

• Our office is in San Francisco, just steps from Caltrain

• At Falconer, we value diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. If you are passionate about technology and thrive in a challenging environment, come join our team and help us shape the future of work communication.