Backend Engineer | Seattle | $250k + meaningful equity

Harrison Clarke are partnered with a fast-growing, early-stage AI company building the financial and operational infrastructure for the next generation of enterprise AI. As enterprises move from experimenting with GenAI to deploying agents and AI-powered applications at scale, they are facing a fundamental problem: how do you understand what AI actually costs, what value it creates, and which initiatives are worth scaling? This company is building the platform that answers that question. The Role As a Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building the systems that power an enterprise-grade AI economics platform. You’ll work on backend services that ingest, process, analyze, and expose high-volume data generated by AI applications and agentic workflows. You’ll tackle problems around distributed systems, data processing, APIs, observability, reliability, and scalability while working closely with the founding team. This is an opportunity to join a small, highly technical team where your work will have significant product and architectural impact. Responsibilities: Design and build scalable backend services powering the core platformBuild APIs and services that process and expose AI usage, cost, performance, and business-impact dataDevelop systems capable of handling high-volume, real-time telemetry from GenAI applicationsWork with data pipelines and distributed systems to transform raw AI activity into actionable insightsBuild integrations across AI models, cloud providers, agent frameworks, and enterprise technology platformsContribute to the architecture and technical direction of the backend platformDesign for reliability, scalability, performance, and observability from the outsetWork closely with product and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into simple, scalable solutionsOwn projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, deployment, and iterationHelp establish engineering best practices as the team and product scaleQualifications: 3+ years of professional software engineering experienceStrong backend engineering experience building production systemsStrong proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or another modern backend languageStrong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, and system designExperience building systems that process high volumes of data or eventsExperience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment practicesStrong understanding of reliability, observability, and performance considerationsComfortable operating in an early-stage environment with significant autonomyAbility to take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and drive them through to productionStrong communication skills and a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to engineering If this sounds like something of interest, please feel free to apply below or alternatively reach out to me at reece@harrisonclarke.com