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Founding Backend Engineer

Novaflow· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$150k - $250k + equityFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Founding Backend Engineer role at Novaflow, building the platform infrastructure, APIs, and data pipelines for a biology-focused AI data analytics platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain APIs and backend services in Python, Go, or similar
  • Set up and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP
  • Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, optimize queries, design data models
  • Build data pipelines and integrations with third-party services
  • Manage data infrastructure (storage, compute) for large-scale workloads
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability
  • Help build the engineering team and establish how we work

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 2+ years building and running backend services in production
  • Strong with cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Deep SQL knowledge and data modeling experience
  • Proficient in Python and Node.js for APIs and services
  • Experience with microservices, service-to-service communication, and API design
  • Familiar with CI/CD, monitoring, and keeping production systems healthy
  • Good communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly

Skills

Required:Backend API developmentCloud infrastructureDatabase designProgramming languagesMicroservicesCI/CD and observabilityCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity as a founding team member
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Unlimited PTO + federal holidays
  • Monthly health and wellness stipend
  • Meals covered when you're in the office (lunch daily, dinner when you're working late)
  • Team offsites and company events
  • Front-row seat to founder-level visibility into product strategy, customer conversations, and fundraising as we scale.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Novaflow

The AI data analyst for biology labs

Novaflow is the AI data analyst for biology labs. -- Bioinformatics data analysis is a time-consuming and expensive process for scientists. With Novaflow, life scientists can upload experimental data, ask questions in plain English, and get instant, publication-ready plots, giving them results in minutes instead of months. In just 7 weeks, we have acquired customers at 9 institutions including UCSF, Mount Sinai, UC Berkeley, and Harvard.

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