- Job title
- Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
- Job location
- New York City
- Job description
- # About us
**ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group)** is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets.
**Founders:** Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).
**Investors:** Garry Tan / YC + Founder of one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), top-tier angels.
**About the Role**
You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.
**Responsibilities**
- Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs
- Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows
- Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization
- Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer
- Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)
- Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity
- Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship
**Requirements**
- 3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
- Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
- Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure
**Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration**
- Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)
- Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations
**Why Join ATG**
We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.
- Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
- Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
- High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy
