Member of Technical Staff (Backend)
ATG · New York City
About us
ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Autonomous is an agentic wealth manager built on this foundation.
Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).
Investors: Led by Garry Tan / YC with participation from one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), and other top-tier angels.
About the Role
You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs
Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows
Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization
Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer
Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)
Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity
Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship
Requirements
3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)
Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)
Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)
Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance
Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure
Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration
Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)
Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations
Why Join ATG
We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.
Work on AI with a massive market opportunity
Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors
High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy