Founding Backend Engineer

Summary

Novaflow is an AI data analyst company focused on transforming biology labs' data analysis processes. They are seeking a Founding Backend Engineer to develop the infrastructure and services necessary for their platform, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs and backend services in Python, Go, or similar
• Set up and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, optimize queries, design data models
• Build data pipelines and integrations with third-party services
• Manage data infrastructure (storage, compute) for large-scale workloads
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability
• Help build the engineering team and establish how we work

Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years building and running backend services in production
• Strong with cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Deep SQL knowledge and data modeling experience
• Proficient in Python and Node.js for APIs and services
• Experience with microservices, service-to-service communication, and API design
• Familiar with CI/CD, monitoring, and keeping production systems healthy
• Good communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly
• Experience with computational biology or scientific computing workloads
• Go experience
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Startup background
• Previous startup experience (prior experience either working for or founding a startup)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years building and running backend services in production
• Strong with cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Deep SQL knowledge and data modeling experience
• Proficient in Python and Node.js for APIs and services
• Experience with microservices, service-to-service communication, and API design
• Familiar with CI/CD, monitoring, and keeping production systems healthy
• Good communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly

Nice to Haves

• Experience with computational biology or scientific computing workloads
• Go experience
• Experience with event-driven architectures or message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• Startup background
• Previous startup experience (prior experience either working for or founding a startup)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity as a founding team member
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO + federal holidays
• Monthly health and wellness stipend
• Meals covered when you're in the office (lunch daily, dinner when you're working late)
• Team offsites and company events