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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Defunct, L.L.C.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Large Language Models, Backend, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/23_ACDB7E94274EFB8B4CB84E76BE001B5A

## About the Role

Are comfortable defining technical direction in ambiguous, fast-moving environments -- not just executing within one

Think in systems -- distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, reliability. You're drawn to infrastructure-level problems and the tradeoffs that come with them.

Have tuned your AI-native coding workflow that makes you dramatically faster and more effective.

Have experience with LLM infrastructure, agentic systems, or real-time AI workloads in production

Care about trajectory over tenure. We're less interested in years of experience than how fast you got here and what you built along the way.

Are excited about working in-person, five days a week. We believe it matters at this stage.