Liminal · 10 hours ago
Senior Back End Engineer
Liminal is a startup focused on generative AI security, aiming to provide safe and reliable AI for regulated industries. The Senior Back-End Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing critical back-end features, maintaining APIs, and ensuring system performance and security.
Responsibilities
Design and implement critical back-end features and services, focusing on performance, reliability, and security
Build and maintain APIs, business logic, and core services using TypeScript (Node.js + Express) and Python (Litestar)
Collaborate across engineering, product, and design to shape requirements and architect clean solutions
Own quality through unit, integration, and automated tests—striving for correctness, maintainability, and trust
Monitor and improve performance, scalability, and cost—profiling bottlenecks and optimizing as needed
Proactively identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in code and system architecture
Write technical documentation (APIs, internal tooling, design decisions) that enables velocity and reuse
Participate in and help lead code reviews, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement
Help triage and resolve production issues, including contributing to incident response and patching workflows
Stay current on backend trends, infrastructure tooling, and security best practices—and bring that learning back to the team
Qualification
Required
4+ years of software engineering experience on a product team shipping real-world systems
Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js in production environments (Express or similar frameworks)
Solid grasp of API design, async programming, and system performance fundamentals
Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure, including containerized and serverless deployments
Understanding core security practices: authentication, encryption, secret management, etc
Experience with Docker (and ideally AWS ECS), CI/CD pipelines, and Git workflows
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for distributed systems
Experience collaborating in Agile teams, participating in planning, reviews, and team retros
Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating across disciplines and communicating tradeoffs
Passion for building clean systems and solving real customer problems
A habit of tinkering, reading, or shipping outside work—you treat engineering as a craft, not just a job
Preferred
Have built or contributed to SDKs, internal dev tools, or platforms used by other engineers
Bring experience in secure systems design or regulated environments (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2)
Have led major projects or mentored other engineers (regardless of title)
Contribute to open source, write technical blogs, or enjoy sharing your learning
Benefits
Equity participation
Company
Liminal
Liminal develops a security platform for regulated enterprises.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$16.98MKey Investors
Fin Capital
2025-11-13Series Unknown· $11.98M
2024-06-05Seed· $5M
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