# Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Platform & Search at Argon AI, Inc.

- Company: Argon AI, Inc.
- What the company does: AI powered insights for Pharma, Biotech, and Life Sciences. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.argon-ai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/argon-ai/25f78d9b-8274-4287-a8d4-eb892957e3eb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/argon-ai-inc-senior-staff-backend-engineer-platform-and-search/

## About the role

Construct a model of pharma. Make relevant evidence accessible through bespoke ontologies, indexing, filtering, and lexical and semantic search. Measure quality alongside latency and cost. Deliver backend systems end to end. Translate product and infrastructure needs into practical plans, write production code, and follow through until it works for customers. Break large projects into useful releases. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of personally delivering substantial search, backend, or infrastructure projects into production. You can explain what you built, how you shipped it, what failed, and what improved
- Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort moving between application code, database queries, and infrastructure
- Experience operating stateful or distributed services, including queues, concurrency, migrations, and recovery
- Production experience with search, indexing, or retrieval systems, including the effects of freshness, filters, and permissions on results
- Practical judgment: you scope work, choose a useful first version, communicate risks early, and finish the rollout
- Clear communication and thoughtful collaboration with engineers, product partners, and domain experts

Tags: Engineering

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