Backend Engineer (Software)

In this role you help secure AI-driven workflows as the product scales. You work closely with founders and engineers to identify weaknesses, challenge assumptions and embed security into the evolving product. You tackle practical problems around AI access, data protection, and cross-system permissions, turning vulnerabilities into fixes. You own security across identity, threat modeling, and vulnerability testing, while contributing to backend work. This hands-on, technically engaged role shapes product security at an early, high-impact stage.

• identify weaknesses in the platform and AI workflows
• perform threat modeling and security design decisions
• conduct vulnerability testing and remediation
• implement and oversee identity and access controls
• contribute code and security-focused fixes to the product
• collaborate with engineers to embed security into the product roadmap
• act as a trusted technical voice on security across the team
• drive security considerations through backend and product development

• hands-on security engineering experience
• ability to perform threat modeling and vulnerability testing
• experience with identity and access controls
• strong coding and hands-on contribution to product security
• capacity to work with founders and cross-functional engineers
• ownership mentality and problem-solving mindset

• ownership
• collaboration with small, technical teams
• practical problem solving
• security engineering
• threat modeling
• vulnerability testing