As a Backend Engineer, you'll design and implement scalable APIs, optimize system performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to support AI-driven financial workflows.
About The Job
Carriage Models is automating due diligence for investors.
What You Will Own
As a Backend Engineer at Carriage Models, you will be instrumental in building the robust infrastructure that powers our cutting-edge AI platform, ensuring we can reliably execute complex financial workflows at scale.
- Design and implementation of scalable APIs and microservices that power our AI-driven financial automation platform
- Data pipeline architecture for processing large-scale financial datasets and model outputs
- System reliability, performance optimization, and infrastructure scaling to support our growing customer base
- Cross-functional collaboration with engineers and domain experts to architect distributed systems that handle complex workflow orchestration
What You Will Need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- You write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Django, or Flask)
- Production experience with distributed systems, message queuing (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS), and caching strategies (Redis, Memcached)
- Solid understanding of database design and optimization (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with LLM integration patterns and API design for AI-powered applications
- Understanding of financial data structures and processing is a plus
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to system design details
- 5+ years of backend development experience
Who You Are
- Fast-paced is your default mode. You operate with urgency and genuinely care about crafting robust, scalable infrastructure
- Complex challenges energize you. You see distributed systems problems and performance bottlenecks as puzzles worth solving
- Learning drives you. AI infrastructure, system design, and financial technology spark your intellectual curiosity
- Ownership comes naturally. You don't just write code - you shepherd services from conception through production, taking pride in uptime and performance metrics
- Team player with structure. You bring organization to chaos and thoughtfulness to architectural decisions while collaborating seamlessly across functions
Why Join Carriage?
- Strong traction: Strong PMF with top-tier private equity, private credit, and real estate investment firms
- High-velocity environment: The pace here is exhilarating. You'll ship meaningful features weekly, tackle diverse challenges, and accelerate your professional growth exponentially
- Building at the AI frontier: We're not just implementing existing solutions - we're pioneering novel AI applications, going beyond current research, and creating technology that doesn't exist anywhere else
- Revolutionary platform: We're building something genuinely transformative. Our tools augment human intelligence in unprecedented ways, fundamentally changing how professionals analyze, generate, and distribute insights
Carriage Models New York, New York, USA Office
Chelsea, New York, New York, United States, 10011
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