Backend Engineer, Samaya

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
• 5+ years experience in tech industry
• Proactive and eager to take ownership
• Fast iteration based on user engagement

Desirable

• As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product
• This year we are set up for rapid growth to tens of thousands expert users who rely on Samaya daily
• You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining a high standard of internal engineering
• Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system uses state-of-the-art in-house models and retrieval systems, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence
• You will ensure that we scale this system to work reliably while enabling rapid improvements with good engineering standards
• Reducing latency will be critical to delivering a near-instant experience for users and unlocking better quality within a restricted budget
• Agents: You will develop expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights
• In this role, you will enable fast, reliable, AI experiences to thousands of users and be the foundation of how our engineering team and cultures grows!
• Develop and own core system components and services, ensuring they are fast, reliable, and scalable
• Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents
• Provide engineering best practices across our entire product, backend, and ML stack
• Take ambiguous business/product problems and build extensible systems that allow us to build fast and adapt to user needs