Senior Backend Engineer - Materia

← About Materia

Materia is a well funded early stage startup, building AI powered software to help augment a wide range of tasks and improve productivity for professionals at large accounting firms.

Role

We are looking for someone for a talented backend engineer with an infra focus to join our growing engineering team. We have many difficult technical challenges to solve around data security, software scalability, and working with LLMs. Note: backend engineers come in many flavors and so don’t feel like you need to match this profile exactly! Feel free to reach out to us and tell us why you would be a great fit for our startup.

Breakdown: 50% infrastructure, devops, security; 50% contributing to our core LLM based codebase.

Impact

• Shape Materia's infrastructure architecture and security systems, and be a core contributor to innovative LLM based algorithms and AI-driven tools.
• As part of a small but growing team, your contributions will directly influence our product development and company trajectory.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Proven experience leading projects and building scalable, robust, and secure systems
• Proficiency in backend software development and cloud based infrastructure, ideally with AWS, python, and RDBMS like postgres
• At least 5 years in backend software engineering with a focus on infrastructure
• A flexible and adaptable mindset. Early stage startups are inherently always evolving! How we handle uncertainty is how we make progress as a company.
• Bonus:
• Previous early stage startup experience
• Experience working with sensitive data
• Experience with with LLMs, ML, AI

Tech Stack

At Materia we use:

• Frontend: NextJS (App Router), Typescript, Tailwind, Zustand
• Design: Figma, Storybook
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, OpenAI/Anthropic/Cohere/open source models, Docker, AWS (CDK), a bit of Azure and GCP