Inworld AI · 1 day ago
Staff Backend Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $280K/yrInworld AI is a product-oriented research lab developing advanced AI models and orchestration platforms. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to contribute to the development of new consumer AI products and enhance the Inworld AI platform, focusing on API services, data ingestion, and infrastructure projects.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer APIsDeveloper ToolsGenerative AIMachine LearningMobile Apps
Hiring Manager
Kyla Salac
Responsibilities
Establish significant scope: Collaborate with the PMs, engineers and leads to determine the biggest product needs to focus on now
Operate with technical autonomy: You have considerable leeway to suggest how to address a given focus area, including bringing in new technical dependencies or standards where it’s the best choice
Collaborate, execute, deliver: This is the core of the building loop. We aim to optimize for both speed and quality, despite it being decidedly non-obvious how to manage that tradeoff exceptionally well
Reflect and drive improvements: Especially as a Staff Engineer, advocate for and realize system improvements, both related to and independent of key features
Qualification
Required
Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Kotlin, Java or Rust
Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more)
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate
Preferred
Experience with analytics or timeseries databases (ClickHouse, Timescale, InfluxDB)
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Experience with C++
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Inworld AI
Inworld AI is an AI runtime powering massive consumer applications.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$123.2MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersComcast NBCUniversal LIFT LabsDisney Accelerator
2023-08-02Series A· $56M
2023-06-27Non Equity Assistance
2022-08-23Series A· $50M
Leadership Team
Michael Ermolenko
Chief Technology Officer
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
Executive Chairman
Recent News
2026-01-23
2025-12-18
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