Security & Backend Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and ship reliable, scalable services with senior engineers
• ▹Work on data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery
• ▹Build and operate backend services and APIs that power the core product
• ▹Embed secure-by-default patterns in services, data flows, and infrastructure
• ▹Identify risks early in product design and propose pragmatic solutions
• ▹Guide the engineering team toward secure defaults in code, infrastructure, and workflows
• ▹Harden cloud environments, networks, and services to reduce the attack surface
• ▹Work with ML and data teams on secure handling of models and data
• ▹Partner with customers to ensure their integrations with the platform are safe and seamless

Requirements

• ▹5+ years building and operating production backend systems
• ▹Owned security-sensitive systems (auth, permissions, secrets, data access controls)
• ▹Strong skills in Python or Scala, ideally both over time
• ▹Applied secure practices across data, code, and infrastructure
• ▹Comfortable with modern cloud deployments and IaC
• ▹Hands-on with security reviews, threat modeling, and hardening

Nice to have

• ▹Enjoys balancing new feature delivery with long-term hardening and scale
• ▹Thrives without heavy process or QA buffers and owns what they ship

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Top-tier compensation with meaningful equity upside
• ▹High autonomy, clear ownership, and visible impact from day one
• ▹Work directly with founders and the Head of Engineering
• ▹No-politics, high-trust, low-ego, high-talent team
• ▹Own backend and security work on mission-critical systems
• ▹Operate at the intersection of AI, data, security, and enterprise workflows

About the company

Boam AI builds managed data solutions that turn messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise. The hiring process has four steps: intro call, deep dive, work sample, and a founder conversation.