# Backend Engineer, IoT Platform at Fellow

- Company: Fellow
- What the company does: Fellow records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings for any team, with automatic action items and AI summaries. Enterprise security and compliance controls, and no AI training on your data. Backed by Felicis.
- Company website: https://fellow.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://fellowproducts.com/pages/careers?gh_jid=5227556007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fellow-backend-engineer-iot-platform/

## About the role

Reporting to the Director of Firmware and Software, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing our backend systems and IoT infrastructure, and will serve as the connective tissue between our hardware devices, mobile application, and cloud backend. You bring strong technical judgment, a high engineering bar, and the operational instincts to ship reliable systems. We are looking for someone who can drive technical decisions independently while remaining agile and pragmatic.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering , with proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and libraries such as Express.js, NestJS, React, or Next.js
- Experience designing and operating scalable PostgreSQL systems , including replication, indexing, query tuning, capacity planning, and data lifecycle or archival strategies
- API Development using REST and GraphQL
- Hands-on experience with AWS IoT or similar IoT cloud services , including MQTT, device management, secure provisioning, certificate lifecycle management, staged OTA updates, and secure communication protocols
- Experience designing highly available, scalable AWS architectures using services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, and SQS, including backup and restore testing, disaster recovery, and multi-region readiness

Tags: Software Engineering