Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Matter Neuroscience is a small but growing startup building the world’s first emotional fitness community. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale backend services and AI infrastructure that powers their product experience.
Responsibilities
- Ship features across the entire backend stack, from infrastructure to product endpoints
- Evolve our chat harness so we can quickly and safely experiment with AI behavior in response to product needs
- Improve evaluations and other quality-control measures to benchmark utility and accuracy of chat for our users
- Optimize AI/ML usage for speed, cost, and reliability
- Establish and follow best practices for scalability, security, testing, monitoring, alerting, and AI systems operations
- Partner closely with product, your engineering teammates, and leadership to translate product goals into reliable technical systems
Skills
- 4+ years of experience working on a large-scale backend system
- Production experience in TypeScript, Python or Go (Matter uses TypeScript)
- Strong SQL and data skills
- Familiarity with AWS or GCP, experience with infrastructure-as-code a plus
- Experience building reliable, observable, and maintainable production systems
- Proactive communication in a fully remote environment
- Strong ownership and a bias for action
- Developing a chat-based system that can answer questions reliably and accurately
- Building an internal data-analysis chatbot, AI analyst, support copilot, search/Q&A tool, or similar product
- Working with LLMs, evals, prompt/version management, observability, cost optimization, or AI safety practices
- Working on consumer, health, wellness, productivity, or other trust-sensitive products
Benefits
- Equity ownership
- 20 vacation days, plus the last week in December off
- 100% company-funded, premium healthcare coverage for you and your dependents
- Remote-first work environment
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