Backend Engineer (Data & AI)

About the role

Our client is an early-stage, venture-backed startup transforming the $800B franchising industry. Their innovative AI platform helps leading franchise brands automate operations, leverage data insights, and scale faster and smarter.

We're hiring a product-focused Backend Software Engineer eager to build impactful solutions, work closely with AI technology, and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to product development, seeing your code and ideas quickly in users' hands.

Responsibilities

• Please note, availability to attend daily afternoon/evening meetings is a specific requirement for this role as most of the team is located in the US 
• Develop scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs using Python, TypeScript, and AWS infrastructure
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, ML, and infrastructure teams to integrate and deploy AI features in a multi-tenant SaaS environment

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years full-time commercial backend software development experience, ideally with Python and TypeScript
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Comfortable building and managing services in AWS environments (EC2, Lambda, ECS, Airflow)
• Experienced using AutoML frameworks, time-series DBs
• Product-minded engineer who enjoys collaborating closely with product and business teams
• Startup-oriented: thrives in ambiguity, eager to learn quickly, iterate fast, and build impactful solutions
• Excellent communication skills and high fluency in English, it’s our daily business language

Nice to have

• AI-curious: experience deploying ML models into production is a strong plus but not required