Senior Backend Engineer

Description

Step into an exciting opportunity to innovate with our dynamic R&D team! We are on the hunt for a backend guru who is ready to dive into cutting edge backend and AI challenges . If you want to work on products that push the boundaries of technology - this position is designed for you!

CodiumAI is an early stage startup, where we are building products for busy developers like you to move fast with confidence by generating meaningful tests suggested right inside the IDE. Our first product is a line of IDE extensions that uses AI and deep domain understanding to help developers create tests for their code. Our second product is an open source pull-request git agent that uses AI to drastically speed up and improve PR reviews!

What will you do?

• You are a versatile, passionate problem-solver developer with a track record of delivering working software in a SaaS environment
• Design and develop backend APIs that involve LLM prompts while collaborating with product and frontend engineers to build a user experience that matters.
• End-to-end contribution to each step of the product development process, from ideation to implementation and release;
• You strive to take a key role in influencing the success and growth of products.
• Our technologies: Python, NodeJS, Uvicorn, FastAPI, OpenAI, Anthropic, vL

Requirements

What do you bring to the table?

• At least seven years of hands-on experience building high-performing, internet scale SaaS APIs
• Solid expertise in Python, NodeJS or similar, modern backend languages
• Deep understanding of the architecture of SaaS applications running in AWS/GCP
• You bring an independent, entrepreneurial attitude and are excited about working in a fast-paced, uncertain, and big-vision environment.

Bonus points for any of:

• Experience with GenAI products — prompts, benchmarks, tooling and MLOps
• You’ve regularly solved DevOps challenges
• You’ve worked on building Dev Tools or working with LSPs/AST/TreeSitter 

About the team