Back End Developer

What you'll do

• Take ownership of the backend: Design APIs, shape data models, improve query performance, and make the architectural decisions that become increasingly difficult to change over time.
• Build and maintain asynchronous systems: Work across queues, background processes, scheduled jobs, retries, and failure handling to make sure temporary issues don't turn into prolonged outages.
• Own the AI infrastructure and pipelines: Support existing AI workflows and help build the next generation of features, including prompt versioning, evaluation, monitoring costs and latency, and handling model-provider failures effectively.
• Build reliable data pipelines: Move and transform data for reporting and analytics, giving operators a consistent and accurate view across multiple locations.
• Integrate with customer systems: Connect Bounti with POS, scheduling, payroll, and other third-party platforms. Build reusable integration infrastructure rather than maintaining separate solutions for every partner.
• Design for reliability: Implement idempotency, reconciliation, customer-level monitoring, and mechanisms for identifying discrepancies when external systems provide incorrect or unexpected data.
• Work directly with technical partners: Handle sandbox environments, certification requirements, API reviews, and other technical aspects of partner integrations.
• Create internal tools: Build tooling that helps the CS team investigate integration issues, troubleshoot failed synchronisations, and activate new integrations.

Your profile

• You have built and run backend systems in production and understand the long-term impact of the technical decisions you make.
• You naturally design for failure and eventual consistency . Retries, idempotency, reconciliation, and recovery are fundamental parts of how you approach distributed systems.
• You have integrated with APIs and platforms you don't control , and can talk through real examples of challenges you've encountered.
• You are comfortable working with external vendors and partners , whether that's a POS provider, workforce platform, or AI model provider, and understand that not everything moves at your preferred pace.
• You use AI coding agents while taking responsibility for the final result . We use Claude Code and Cursor every day. Writing code is only part of the job — you need to be able to assess generated code critically and ensure what reaches production is maintainable, consistent, and well designed.
• You are practical about architecture and scope , knowing when it's worth investing in a reusable abstraction and when it's better to keep things simple.
• Experience with our stack is a plus: TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Prisma, Kubernetes .

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience running LLM-powered features in production, including evaluation, monitoring, and cost management
• Built observability and monitoring for systems involving third-party dependencies
• Taken an integration through a partner certification or app review process from start to finish
• Experience working in hospitality, retail, workforce management, or similar operational software