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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Engineer - Backend Leaning - **Company:** Alma, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Lifecycle Management, Automation of Tests, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Code Review, Databases, Data Warehousing, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Database Schema, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Fastapi, Containerization, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Production Code, Front End Software Development, Microservices - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/product-engineer-backend-leaning-tryalma-com-8118436 ## About the Role We're hiring a Product Engineer - a backend-leaning, AI-native engineer who owns features end-to-end, from database schema to the React component the user clicks on. You'll work directly with the founding team and early customers to ship a world-class AI-powered product, and help us scale our platform by 100x. We need you to be in the 99th percentile of having a "can-do" attitude., * Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment & wear multiple hats - including ones outside your historical comfort zone. * 2+ years of backend development experience, with demonstrated willingness (or eagerness) to own frontend work. You don't need to be a CSS wizard on day one, but you need to be the kind of engineer who'll learn React deeply rather than punt it to someone else. * Experience developing products built on top of LLMs / ML. * Proficient in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, containerization and scaling microservices. * Comfortable in (or excited to ramp on) TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling. * Experience building products from zero to one. * Ability to seek & find the right resources for solving open-ended problems. * Daily, hands-on use of modern coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent) - not as autocomplete, but as a primary way of shipping production code. * Comfortable building and consuming MCP servers to integrate internal tools, data, and workflows into your dev loop. * Strong point of view on AI-assisted code review, automated testing, and how to keep quality high when shipping at agent speed. * Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate. * BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. ️ Nice-to-haves * Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A). * Genuine full-stack experience - comfortable across backend, frontend, and infra. * Understand data lake / data warehouse. * Understand Transformer / Attention / GPU inference. * Experience with AWS, Supabase, LaunchDarkly & Betterstack. * Built your own MCP servers, custom agents, or internal AI dev tooling. * Published, blogged, or shared opinions about modern AI-assisted development workflows. ## Description * Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product. * Own features end-to-end - architect the backend (server logic, databases, APIs), build the frontend that exposes them, and ship to production. * Partner with our designer and product team to translate user needs into shipped experiences - not just APIs that "the frontend team will integrate later." * Engage in the entire application lifecycle with a high bar for coding, debugging, testing, and deploying. * Operate as a force multiplier with AI tooling - use coding agents to move 5-10x faster than traditional engineers without sacrificing quality, and continuously evolve how our team builds, reviews, and tests software. ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Intro to FastAPI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/462-intro-to-fastapi) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [Marketing x Product: How We Stopped Gaslighting Each Other and Built AI Products That Actually Work](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100244-marketing-x-product-how-we-stopped-gaslighting-each-other-and-built-ai-products-that-actually-work) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix)