Junior Backend Engineer

Baselayer is an intelligent business identity platform trusted by over 2,200 financial institutions. They are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to build and maintain RESTful APIs, design backend services, and optimize performance for high-volume systems while ensuring security and compliance.

Responsibilities

• API Development & Integration: Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate them with various data sources, ensuring scalability, high performance, and adaptability for autonomous agents in the GTM space
• Backend System Design: Architect and design core backend services that support KYC/KYB processes, leveraging knowledge graphs and LLMs for dynamic use cases
• Data Processing & Management: Develop and maintain robust data pipelines for identity data processing, focusing on scalability and performance when handling large-scale, high-performance data flows
• AI/ML Integration: Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate models, including reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA), to improve LLMs for specific use cases within the identity space
• Platform Infrastructure: Build the infrastructure to support future AI/ML hires and projects, creating a scalable platform foundation for continued innovation
• Security & Compliance: Ensure backend systems meet industry standards for security, privacy, and compliance, particularly around KYC/KYB regulations
• Performance Optimization: Implement optimizations for large-scale data management, ensuring backend services can efficiently process identity data while maintaining reliability
• Testing & Debugging: Write unit tests, debug issues, and monitor backend services for performance and reliability, while continuously improving backend architecture to handle diverse data and use cases

Skills

• 1-3 years of experience in backend development, working with Python and building APIs
• Comfortable working with large-scale data and enjoy optimizing performance for high-volume systems
• Strong interest in AI/ML integration, particularly with LLMs, and eager to learn about new technologies
• Prioritize security and compliance in backend systems, especially in regulated environments like KYC/KYB
• Keen eye for detail and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code while optimizing for performance
• Thrive in a high-trust, ownership-focused environment and are comfortable working across different levels of abstraction
• Problem-solver who navigates the unknown confidently
• Proactive self-starter who thrives in dynamic settings
• Incredibly intelligent and clever. You take pride in your code
• Highly feedback-oriented. We believe in radical candor and using feedback to get to the next level

Benefits

• Hybrid in SF. In office 3 days/week
• Flexible PTO
• Healthcare, 401K
• Smart, genuine, ambitious team

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