Senior Backend Engineer

Job description

## **Ship & run backend systems that turn messy signals into truth** Boam AI builds managed data solutions that transform messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own core parts of our Scala + Python data and agent infrastructure. You will design, build, and scale existing and greenfield systems that keep our data fresh, our APIs fast, and our customers’ workflows moving. This is a role for someone who wants real ownership over hard technical problems, with minimal safety nets and a small, senior team. ## What You’ll Do - Design and build resilient backend services and APIs - Own critical data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery - Prepare our systems for 100x data growth over the next three years - Build reliability and test coverage into the code itself – no separate QA layer - Improve performance, scalability, and observability across our stack - Work closely with data/ML to productize AI-powered agents end to end - Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, pairing, and mentorship - Optimize for real impact, customer outcomes, and fast iteration over theoretical perfection - Use next-gen AI tools to improve code quality and velocity ## You Might Be a Fit If... - 5+ years building and operating production backend systems - Strong experience with Scala, Python or functional / JVM languages - Comfortable with distributed systems, data modeling, and high-volume pipelines - Enjoy greenfield work: from first principles design to deploy and monitoring - Thrive without heavy process, QA buffers, or endless safeguards - Bias to ship, measure, and refine rather than over-architect - Motivated by solving real user problems, not just abstract puzzles - Excited to work where AI/ML is deeply embedded in the product, not bolted on ## Why Boam AI - Join a no-politics, high-trust, low-ego, and high-talent team - Own mission-critical systems used by top-tier enterprise customers - Work directly with founders & Head of Engineering on problems that matter - High autonomy, real impact, and clear ownership from day one - Operate at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and enterprise workflows - Top-tier compensation with meaningful equity upside - Help build the platform, patterns, and engineering culture you can be proud of ## Our Hiring Process Our process is fast, structured, and transparent — built to respect your time and surface real mutual fit **1. Intro Call** A short conversation to learn more about you, share context on Boam AI and the role, and answer initial questions **2. Deep Dive** Walk us through past engineering work and how you think about complex, ambiguous backend problems **3. Work Sample** Solve a real Boam-style technical challenge that shows your coding style, system thinking, and execution muscle **4. Founder Conversation** Candid discussion with our founder on ambition, values, ownership, and how you’d grow with us as we scale the platform