Member of Technical Staff (Backend)

About Autonomous Technologies Group

Superintelligent financial advisor

Tech

- Pre/post training - Deep RL - Multi-agent systems - Synthetic data - High-performance cloud scale computing - Large scale data ingestion - Web & mobile frontend

The role

# About us**ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group)** is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.**Founders:** Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).**Investors:** Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.**About the Role** You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.**Responsibilities**- Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs- Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows- Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization- Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer- Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)- Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity- Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship**Requirements**- 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)- Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)- Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance- Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure**Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration**- Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)- Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations**Why Join ATG**We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.- Work on AI with a massive market opportunity- Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors- High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy