Staff Backend Engineer

We're looking for a top-tier Staff Backend Engineer to join our tech team.

You'll wear many hats. Your core responsibilities will be to:

• Design internet-scale, high-performance infrastructure
• Build robust products- develop, deploy, and maintain new features end-to-end
• Master the technical scope of your domain and raise the bar for engineering quality
• Collaborate on road-mapping and drive key technical decisions
• Own large cross-functional initiatives from conception to delivery
• Work autonomously alongside the CTO and the rest of the Software & ML teams
• Conduct code reviews and foster knowledge-sharing across the team, * Node.js / NestJS
• React
• Python
• Java
• PostgreSQL
• OpenSearch
• Vespa
• Apache Storm
• vLLM
• Kubernetes
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform, The ideal candidate will play a central role in our engineering team, partnering closely with the founders to spearhead groundbreaking products. Your backend expertise will shape the future of AI-powered applications and bring our vision to life., * Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
• Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
• Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
• Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
• Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Master's degree?, You're a great match if you:

• Are excited to help build Google for AI agents- and believe in Linkup's mission
• Have extensive backend experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Enjoy optimizing systems-shaving off milliseconds and making GPUs "go brrr"
• Bring experience with, or strong curiosity about, AI technologies and a commitment to continuous learning
• Possess a solid grasp of infrastructure and CI/CD best practices
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and aren't afraid to work hard to achieve ambitious goals

We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.

A bit more about our 3 co-founders:

• Philippe Mizrahi- Led the development of Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen, an open source search engine.
• Denis Charrier- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
• Boris Toledano- Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.

Compensation Range: €90K - €130K

Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve. Our mission is to deliver the world's freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.