Backend Engineer, Thinking Systems
Hybrid (Montreal)CA$115k - CA$175k + equityFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
YC-backed startup GovernGPT seeks a Backend Engineer to own the database and backend services for metadata-enriched reasoning systems. Focus on scalable data models, secure production services, and Kubernetes-based deployments in a high-trust, autonomous engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Architect backend services for scalable and reliable pre-processing of documents to be consumed by reasoning systems for more stochastic outputs.
- Own the design and delivery of novel data models to enable advanced reasoning.
- Maintain interfaces optimized for use by coding agents and other service layers (interface and reasoning).
- Be responsible for the reliability of services in production and work directly via our PaaS layer on Kubernetes to manage zero downtime deployments.
- Contribute to all automated infrastructure that accelerates building via coding agents, automated preview environments, testing, etc.
- Develop patterns for agents to operate safely under constraints in secure environments.
- Adapt role to focus on preferred aspects as the team scales.
- Work directly with cross-disciplinary technologists to tackle challenges.
Qualifications
- Experience with seeing systems go to production, break, and fix.
- Self-guided in exploration and able to lead as an independent contributor.
- Team player who owns competencies but values collective output.
Skills
Required:PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLKubernetesDocker
Nice to have:NginxLLMsSoftware ArchitecturePrompt Engineering
Benefits
- Equity vesting in compensation package.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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