Software Engineer, Backend

$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco or Remote (North America, Europe) Role Backend engineers build the platform that support’s Anara’s functionality. Sometimes this means inventing retrieval systems that can process 10M+ files. Sometimes this means dealing with the woes of scaling to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Your work might include: Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools. Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness. Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows. Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast. Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability. You’re likely a good fit if: You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months. You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and de