Elixir Backend Engineer, Together AI
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Cloud platform for building generative AI
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Cloud platform for building generative AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Role
Who you are
- Are an experienced backend developer and have worked with relational databases, key/value stores, and object-relational mappers
- Are willing and eager to become proficient in Elixir and Phoenix
- Have excellent programming skills, experience working in Elixir or another functional programming language is strongly preferred
- Are experienced with, or at least interested in, authentication and authorization (including abbreviations like OIDC, SAML, OAuth, JWT, RBAC, ABAC, SSO and more)
- Are proficient in TypeScript and Next.js API development
- Have a passion for working in high-performing startup teams where you can take charge of reducing ambiguity and shaping open-ended requirements
- Are curious to try and learn new things, and are not afraid to propose new approaches and make mistakes
- Excel in your communication skills, such as openly soliciting and giving feedback to improve and develop the team, constructively discussing approaches to problems faced by the team
What the job involves
- Together.ai is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Identity & Collaboration team, where we build the foundational authentication, authorization and collaboration features that power every product and service
- Our work is mission-critical: as part of the Product Foundations engineering group, we own authentication flows (including SSO and OAuth), organizations, projects, API keys, and role-based access controls that enable secure collaboration across at scale
- Every customer interaction with Together relies on the systems we build
- Whether it is a researcher accessing their models, an enterprise team collaborating on a shared project, or a developer making an API call, we ensure that authentication is seamless and invisible for simple use cases while providing robust, enterprise-grade capabilities for complex organizational structures
- Our work directly enables Together's growth from individual users to large enterprise teams, and we're actively building the next generation of collaboration features that will unlock new ways for customers to work together securely and efficiently across all Together products
- Full-time: This means 40 flexible hours, Monday through Friday
- Design & Implement Elixir APIs and services that serve Together AI users
- Build service SDKs and advise other teams who consume our Elixir API in TypeScript, Golang, and Python
- Contribute to running the Elixir/Erlang VM (BEAM) in production
- Work across services to improve service integrations and replace legacy solutions
- Participate in making product and technical decisions that are in the best interest of our customers
- Maintain our systems to the highest standards of code quality, documentation, automated testing, and continuous delivery
- Work with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational (MongoDB) data
Our take
Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.
Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.
The company has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to expand its AI Acceleration Cloud product and prepare a large deployment of its GPUs, all while securing its position as an open-source model-building platform.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$305m
SERIES B
Mar 2024
$106m
SERIES A
Total funding: $533.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health insurance plans
- Dental and vision insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
- Mental health support and services
- Income protection & retirement
- 401(k) plan
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- STD & LTD insurance
- Monthly team lunches
- Flexible time off policy
- Team-driven celebrations and events
- Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ce Zhang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vipul Ved Prakash
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.
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