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Member of Technical Staff (Backend)

Autonomous Technologies Group · New York City · On-site

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About Autonomous Technologies Group

Superintelligent financial advisor. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
  • Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure
More about this role

ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.

Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).

Investors: Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.

About the Role

You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.

Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs

Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows

Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization

Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer

Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)

Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity

Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship

3+ years building...

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