# Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at ATG

Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at ATG in New York City and 1 more. Hybrid, full-time, paying $180k–$260k. Posted July 15, 2025.

- Company: ATG
- Location: New York City and 1 more
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $180k–$260k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2025-07-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atg/a37e306f-edf5-4baf-8743-75d7d75bb7a4/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/member-of-technical-staff-backend-atg-1vazme

## 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

## Description

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