hirly

Atg

Member of Technical Staff (Backend)

New York City

Apply through hirly

hirly scores this role against your resume, shows its reasoning, then writes a resume and cover letter for it and fills the application with you. Free to start — no card required.

hirly's read of this role

Seniority
Lead / management
Country
US
Work mode
Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly
2 Sept 2026

Derived automatically from the posting. Sign up to see how the role scores against your own resume.

the posting

About us

ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Autonomous is an agentic wealth manager built on this foundation.

Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).

Investors: Led by Garry Tan / YC with participation from one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), and other top-tier angels.

  • About the Role
  • You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs

Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows

Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization

Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer

Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)

Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity

Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship

Requirements

3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)

Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)

Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)

Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance

Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure

Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration

Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)

Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations

Why Join ATG

We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.

Work on AI with a massive market opportunity

Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors

High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy

Is this role actually a fit for you?

hirly answers with a score and its reasoning, then writes the resume and cover letter if you decide to go for it.

Score it against my resume
Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at Atg — hirly