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Software Engineer, Backend (Partner 16, Partner 18)

Andreessen Horowitz · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

About the role

You will join a fully functional team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for the firm’s investing and operations teams. You are a detail-oriented backend engineer with a strong interest in developing feature-rich, data-driven applications. Your work will focus on identifying, acquiring, and normalizing alternative data sources, and on designing and implementing secure, scalable backend systems that power our internal products.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python 3 (or another backend language) and willingness to learn new technologies
  • Experience deploying production services on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
  • Experience working with production SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch)
  • Experience building and deploying containerized services, familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus
  • Experience working in environments that value rapid iteration, code quality, and operational excellence
More about this role

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic . We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI , bio + healthcare , consumer , crypto , enterprise , fintech , games , and companies building toward American dynamism . a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

You will join a fully functional team of experienced individual contributors building internal software tools for the firm’s investing and operations teams. You are a detail-oriented backend engineer with a strong interest in developing feature-rich, data-driven applications. Your work will focus on identifying,...

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