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Catio · 3 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Catio is building the world’s first AI-powered Copilot for Tech Architecture, helping CTOs, architects, and developers optimize their tech stacks. The Senior Backend Engineer will design and build intelligent backend systems for Catio’s AI-first platform, working on distributed systems, data pipelines, and ML infrastructure to enhance architecture insights and recommendations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

Build scalable backend systems powering our observability, architecture modeling, and recommendation engines—leveraging data pipelines, microservices, and system modeling techniques
Integrate AI/ML workflows by collaborating with AI engineers to embed LLM-based and multi-agent architecture intelligence within the platform, enabling rich architecture recommendations and generative planning
Contribute to core architecture capabilities: Help identify key architectural patterns and best practices, build backend services that reflect architecture decisions and evolution, and ensure Catio provides actionable visibility for our users
Optimize performance and maintainability: Implement monitoring, fault-tolerant workflows, and observability layers for mission-critical services
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with product managers, AI researchers, and technical leadership to translate requirements into robust platform capabilities
Learn and inform: Contribute to a high-performing engineering culture by sharing learnings and taking initiative to inform other team members where relevant

Qualification

Backend engineeringDistributed systemsMicroservices architecturesAI/ML workflowsGo programmingPython programmingPerformance tuningTechnical architecture designSystems thinkingObservability toolingDebuggingClean codeComputer Science degreeCollaborationGrowth mindset

Required

4+ years of experience in backend engineering at top-tier startups or technology companies, although we are not opposed to less experienced candidates with outstanding expertise
Proven track record of building scalable, production-grade systems, ideally in 0→1 product environments
Expertise in modern backend languages and frameworks (Go, Python preferred), with a passion for clean, idiomatic, maintainable code
Deep knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architectures, with practical familiarity in observability and DevOps tooling
A systems-thinking mindset and a passion for solving architecture and infrastructure challenges—especially for the cloud-native space
Strong aptitude for performance tuning, debugging, and technical architecture design
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted development (e.g. Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code), with an openness to leveraging emerging technologies
A high-trust personality with a growth mindset—able to collaborate across teams, share context, and own outcomes
Academic strength in Computer Science or related field; graduate-level education is a plus

Benefits

Top-tier compensation for startups at our stage
Significant equity in a rapidly growing, VC-backed company
Committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace

Company

Catio

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Copilot for Tech Architecture - AI-powered platform enabling companies to excel with evaluating, planning and evolving their tech stacks.

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$7.04M
Key Investors
Alumni Ventures
2025-03-05Seed· $3M
2023-12-12Pre Seed· $2.64M
2023-03-02Pre Seed· $1.4M

Leadership Team

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Boris Bogatin
Co-Founder & CEO
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