Founding Software Engineer

10+ years of backend or data engineering experience, ideally with a focus on distributed systems or streaming architectures. Strong in Golang and/or Python. Experienced with gRPC, REST, and working in Unix/Linux environments. Architected at least one complex distributed system involving real-time data, search, or observability. Familiarity with schema evolution, ORMs, and data mapping strategies in evolving analytics systems. Comfort working with Kubernetes and cloud-native services in AWS/GCP/Azure. Ability to debug deeply, reason about performance tradeoffs, and own systems end to end.

Architect and evolve core backend systems including event ingestion, real-time risk evaluation, semantic search, and investigation-grade querying. Design and optimize streaming data pipelines using Kafka, Redpanda, or similar technologies. Define and refine data models and schemas across structured, analytical, unstructured, and vector storage layers. Identify and lead improvements for architectural weaknesses and performance bottlenecks. Implement data ingestion and transformation frameworks for policy evaluation, semantic analysis, and dynamic response. Optimize query performance, storage efficiency, and retrieval accuracy. Build and maintain backend APIs, monitoring infrastructure, and policy enforcement workflows.