Backend Engineer

About Peppr AI

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Tech

If you're a builder who’s excited to work on both backend systems and intuitive frontends — and want to shape how AI integrates into real-world enterprise workflows — you're a great fit. We're looking for interns with: - Strong full-stack engineering skills (we work with TypeScript, React, and Python) - A product mindset and experience building end-to-end features - Fast iteration ability and comfort with ambiguity - **Bonus:** Experience with networking, authentication, enterprise security, or working with AI tooling ### What You’ll Do As an intern at **Peppr AI**, you’ll work across the stack to help build the infrastructure that powers the agentic AI layer for the enterprise. You’ll be shipping real product: - Building frontend interfaces for how employees interact with Peppr’s AI - Engineering robust backend systems that process and unify organizational knowledge - Contributing to our internal platform that enables agents to operate securely and autonomously across fragmented enterprise tools - Collaborating on design, architecture, and product direction from day one

The role

**What You'll Do** As a founding backend engineer at Peppr AI, you'll architect and build the robust infrastructure that powers our agentic AI platform. You'll design PostgreSQL-based systems, implement secure authentication layers, manage cloud deployment pipelines, and help build the foundational systems that let AI agents interface securely with enterprise data. Key responsibilities include: * Design and maintain reliable PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, migrations, and backups * Build secure auth layers: authentication, fine-grained authorization, and RBAC systems * Containerize and deploy services on Kubernetes (or similar), integrating with CI/CD tooling * Monitor production performance, latency, reliability, and security across all systems * Collaborate on frontend integration and infrastructure improvements * Bonus: Help architect and build AI agent pipelines and orchestration systems **What We're Looking For** We're seeking a builder who can create scalable, secure backend systems that form the foundation for AI-powered enterprise tools. You should have: **Required:** * 3+ years in backend development with strong PostgreSQL experience * Solid grounding in cloud platforms: AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes * Strong security awareness: authentication, authorization, and encryption best practices * Familiarity with API frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django) * Excellent collaboration and code review habits with a strong team mindset **Nice-to-Have:** * Hands-on experience with AI-centric pipelines, vector stores, and agent orchestration (RAG, LangChain, etc.) * Experience with cloud infrastructure tools: Terraform, Helm, GitOps * Background in production-grade security architectures (RBAC, IAM policies) * A product mindset and experience shipping end-to-end features * Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a startup environment This role offers the opportunity to shape both our technical architecture and product direction while working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure challenges.

Skills

• Flask
• JavaScript
• Python
• React
• Redis