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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** COMPRESSUS INC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Concurrency, Backend, Free and Open-Source Software, Machine Learning Operations, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=14d353efa7230dcb

## About the Role

* A cracked full-stack engineer who enjoys a high-paced startup environment, takes pride in what they build and owns it end to end.
 * Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production systems on AWS.
 * Python/basic ML Ops skills. Experience in scaling AI infra products is a plus.
 * Proactive, strong communicator with fast response time, team player

Tech Requirements

 * Strong backend engineering fundamentals
 * Experience with concurrency and distributed systems
 * Experience deploying and scaling production backend services on AWS
 * Ability to work across systems (Python + light frontend)
 * Excellent Claude Code (or similar) user

Nice to have

 * Open-source contributions
 * Startup experience
 * OAuth / API auth flows



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