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Base pay range

$180,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr

We're seeking an exceptional and ambitious Backend engineer who thrives in high-intensity environment with lots of unsolved challenges and wants to build something revolutionary.

Our team moves fast, works hard and solves big problems. We're focused on rapid execution and creating outsized impact in the legal space.

Hello! We're ALMA

Backed by leading VCs such as Bling Capital, Forerunner, Village Global, NFX, Conviction, MVP Ventures, NEA and Silkroad Innovation Hub, Alma is on a mission to forever change immigration for the better!

We're focused on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals, and disrupting $10b market that has never seen an amazing product!

Founding Team

The founding team has an extensive background in the legal industry, consulting, and building ML platforms.

• Shuo - CTO & Cofounder: Shuo built the ML Platform (Michelangelo) at Uber for 5+ years after which he was the head of AI & ML team at a SupportLogic (a series B startup using predictive & generative AI for customer support).
• Aizada - CEO & Cofounder: Aizada is a graduate of Harvard Law School, an attorney with 7+ years of experience including working at a top law firm such as Cooley and an ex-McKinsey consultant.
• Assel - CPO & Cofounder: Assel is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has 7 years of experience building products at FinTechs such as SoFi and Step and at large financial institutions when working at Ernst & Young.
  
  

What we're looking for

We are looking for a highly-skilled and ambitious backend engineer with 5+ years of developing scalable platform solutions. You need to be super pumped about building AI native products to make immigration easy. You will own the platform end-to-end, partner with frontend engineers to deliver products features and scale our platform by 100x. We need you to be in the 99th percentile of having a “can-do” attitude.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product.
• Architect, develop and maintain the server-side logic, databases, APIs, and other backend processes to meet application requirements.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of user-facing elements.
• Engage in the entire application lifecycle and hold high bar for coding, debugging, and deploying with an emphasis on high-quality, scalable code.
  
  

Role Requirements

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment & wear multiple hats.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Experience with developing products built on top of LLMs / ML.
• Proficient in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, containerization and scaling microservice.
• Experience in building products from zero to one.
• Ability to seek & find the right resources for solving open-ended problems.
• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  
  

️ Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A).
• Experience working across the stack
• Understand data lake / data warehouse
• Understand Transformer / Attention / GPU inference
• Experience with AWS, Supabase, LaunchDarkly & Betterstack
  
  

Compensation Range: $180K - $250K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Legal Services

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