Backend Engineer
AI summary of the role
Design and lead development of critical backend components for an AI-powered financial intelligence platform.
What you’ll do
- Develop and own core system components and services, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and scalable
- Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents
- Provide engineering best practices across our entire product, backend, and ML stack
- Take ambiguous business/product problems and build extensible systems that allow us to build fast and adapt to user needs
What you’ll bring
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
- 5+ years experience in tech industry
- Proactive and eager to take ownership
- Fast iteration based on user engagement
Technologies
distributed systems · data/indexing/search systems · document ingestion · QA systems · agentic workflows · retrieval systems · ML stack
About Samaya AI
Purpose-built AI agents that turn real-time financial market data into expert-level investment intelligence and research for institutions.
Series B
Source and classification
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Role As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product. This year we are set up for rapid growth to tens of thousands expert users who rely on Samaya daily. You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining a high standard of internal engineering. Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system uses state-of-the-art in-house models and retrieval systems, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence. You will ensure that we scale this system to work reliably while enabling rapid improvements with good engineering standards. Reducing latency will be critical to delivering a near-instant experience for users and unlocking better quality within a restricted budget. Agents: You will develop expert-level agentic workflows to automate
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Role As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product. This year we are set up for rapid growth to tens of thousands expert users who rely on Samaya daily. You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining a high standard of internal engineering. Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system uses state-of-the-art in-house models and retrieval systems, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence. You will ensure that we scale this system to work reliably while enabling rapid improvements with good engineering standards. Reducing latency will be critical to delivering a near-instant experience for users and unlocking better quality within a restricted budget. Agents: You will develop expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights. In this role, you will enable fast, reliable, AI experiences to thousands of users and be the foundation of how our engineering team and cultures grows! Responsibilities Develop and own core system components and services, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and scalable Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents Provide engineering best p [... source excerpt omitted ...] a hybrid setup - typically team members spend a minimum of three days in the office per week. Travel: Grow and connect with a travel budget that encourages conference attendance, customer visits, and team gatherings. Equipment: Create your ideal workspace with an office Equipment allowance to set up what works best for you. Inclusive Hiring Interview Accommodations: We are committed to ensuring an equitable selection process for everyone and welcome applicants from varied backgrounds to enrich our team. If you require accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process, please inform us. Equal Opportunity Employer: We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
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