Backend Engineer
ZipFull Time
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)
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The pay scale for this role ranges from $165,000 to $250,000.
This is a fully onsite position requiring 5 days in-office in San Francisco, CA.
Required skills include proficiency in TypeScript as the primary language, deep familiarity with distributed systems technologies such as Redis, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Kafka, and experience architecting distributed systems.
The team values builders who are proficient with tools, hold high standards, love high-energy environments, take ownership, automate tasks, and excel at managing complexity through standards and abstractions.
Strong candidates have significant experience building various systems, speak command line fluently, embrace automation and ownership, manage complexity well, and have expertise in TypeScript and distributed systems like Redis, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Kafka; Kubernetes experience is a bonus.
Optimizes AI for edge computing applications
Latent AI focuses on enhancing artificial intelligence for edge computing, which involves processing data close to where it is generated, like on smartphones and IoT devices. Their main product is an edge MLOps workflow that automates and simplifies the deployment of AI models on these devices, ensuring they are efficient, secure, and require minimal maintenance. This company stands out from competitors by specifically targeting the edge computing market and providing a software development kit (SDK) called Latent LEIP, which aids developers in creating and deploying AI models. The goal of Latent AI is to make AI more accessible and efficient for applications that need real-time data processing, such as in autonomous vehicles and smart cities.