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Backend Engineer

Known Dating· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$200k - $350kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Backend engineer role focused on building infrastructure for Known's core product, including real-time conversational AI, matchmaking, and autonomous agents, with end-to-end ownership across architecture, deployment, and scaling.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and scaling the backend services, APIs, and infrastructure that power Known's core consumer experience
  • Building real-time systems that support conversational AI, voice interactions, and agentic workflows
  • Architecting data pipelines and storage systems to support matchmaking, personalization, and machine learning
  • Developing reliable, low-latency services that connect our AI agents to real-world actions and third-party integrations
  • Improving the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our systems as we grow to millions of users
  • Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and scaling

Qualifications

  • 4–6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production backend systems
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Java)
  • Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, and scalable service architectures
  • Experience with relational databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and data infrastructure
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP)
  • Strong product intuition and a bias toward shipping, iterating, and taking ownership
  • You want to build technology that could lead to a million marriages and babies

Skills

Required:Backend programmingAPI designDatabases and data infrastructureCloud and deployment
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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