Founding Team Software Engineer, Backend

About Us Bond Studio AI is the future of how materials are purchased — designed, visualized, and procured for your space in real-time. Backed by institutional investors including Fifth Wall, WndrCo, Zacua Ventures, Heartland Ventures, and more, we are transforming how businesses and consumers buy materials using computer vision and AI. Role We are looking for a founding team software engineer to own the creation, design, and maintenance of our backend for our end to end platform. The role will require the candidate to devise the system's technical architecture in coordination with their peers to ensure the interoperability of their designs. You will work in an environment that is fast paced, has little technical debt, and utilizes the latest technologies. Our platform is currently supported by a backend hosted in AWS, written in TypeScript with Node.js as a runtime and Express as a server. Applications are containerized using Docker and deployed to ECS Fargate using Gitlab for SCM and CI/CD with Datadog for monitoring. Ordering materials for complex projects is slow, confusing, and painful for businesses and consumers. We built Bond Studio to fix that. Responsibilities Drive the overall architecture of the company's backend systems; including services, nightly data jobs, authentication systems, search indices, workflow engines, etc. Manage the company’s infrastructure (currently in AWS), ideally through an IaC solution Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, test suites, and other processes that ensure high engineering velocity while minimizing cost Deliver key features in coordination with the other engineers at the company Coordinate with stakeholders to conceptualize project timelines and evolving strategy Assist in the recruiting process and actively mentor engineers across the company Qualifications 5+ years of experience as a software engineer working on backend systems Knowledge of common software architectures web, mobile, and SaaS applications Mastery of technical design, including data/object modeling and interface/API design Expert in data processing, workflow management, queuing systems, infrastructure management, monitoring systems, search, authentication, etc. Ability to lead technical discussion and decisions, including framework selection Comfortable working directly with biz stakeholders and engineers outside your company Enjoys working on small teams and evolving startup environments Passionate about product and small details to deliver a delightful user experience