Staff Backend Engineer — Scalable Data & AI Infra
Summary
Lead architecture and scaling of Scala/Python data and agent infrastructure for an AI company, ensuring fast APIs, fresh data, and reliable workflows while mentoring engineers.
Boam AI in Cape Town seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the technical direction of Scala + Python data and agent infrastructure, owning long-term architecture across multiple systems and scaling services to keep data fresh, APIs fast, and customer workflows moving.
You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and raise the bar for reliability, performance, and observability in AI-enabled data platforms and distributed systems.
