Backend Engineer

Akkio (Headquarters: Remote)

Python Go Machine Learning AI Generative AI Backend Cloud SOA REST API Message Queues AI Engineer Back End Engineer

Company: Akkio is building an agentic AI platform to help media agencies leverage all of their data across the campaign lifecycle. Think AI-powered audience building, media mix modeling, campaign optimization, analysis and reporting. Akkio’s platform combines state-of-the-art ML technology with a simple, intuitive interface to ensure agencies can easily infuse data into every decision they make to enhance client outcomes. Founded in May 2019 and backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Akkio makes AI easy enough for anyone to use.

Role: As a Backend Engineer at Akkio, you will play an essential role in designing, developing, and maintaining our AI-driven solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience and a passion for building robust web applications that handle large amounts of data. You will collaborate with our team of engineers, data scientists, and marketing experts to create products that help media agencies achieve their goals.

Responsibilities:
*   Build user-facing features and the infrastructure to support them.
*   Build brand new products & technologies.
*   Ensure consistency across the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
*   Communicate milestones and progress clearly.

Qualifications:
*   2+ years of back-end engineering experience shipping and scaling cloud products.
*   Experience building and debugging large scale systems.
*   Demonstrable knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
*   Experience writing maintainable, testable, production-grade Python code.
*   Experience with SOA architectures, REST, message queues and API design.
*   A strong bias to execution coupled with high engineering standards and attention to detail.
*   An interest in AI and machine learning (experience a plus, but not required).

Bonus:
*   Experience in front-end software development (AngularJS, Angular, Vue.js, React...).

Ideal Candidate: Believes in Akkio's mission (making AI accessible) and excited to work in a small, dynamic, startup team environment. Must be authorized to work in the US and have overlap with a continental US timezone.