Founding Backend Engineer

We are looking to add a stellar Backend Engineer to our fast growing team at Airial Travel by CoInvent AI. You must be passionate about solving real-world challenges with cutting-edge AI solutions. The founders have built the backend so far. You’ll be the first backend hire and have the opportunity to build a lot of the backend technology, including many parts of the AlphaTravel reasoning engine. You will gain invaluable experience working with a Generative-AI-native stack. What You’ll Do Work on our AlphaTravel AI engine:

• Make defining contributions to AlphaTravel, our proprietary travel AI tech that is redefining travel planning.
• Develop new functionality and user flows, add new agents and variables, fine-tune existing agents, build constrained optimizers, optimize the entire graph and add explainability.
• Improve the state-of-the-art for multivariate AI reasoning, building the best travel AI engine to ever exist.
• Solve incredible challenging and interesting applied AI problems.

Develop and integrate exciting AI-powered features:

• Work with multiple external APIs to scrape web data and provide seamless, powerful experiences for our users.
• Enrich Airial Travel with new capabilities and features that surprise and delight travellers at every step.

Optimize performance and user workflows:

• Solve complex workflow challenges involving multi-step user tasks, dependencies, and resource management.
• Optimize latency, accuracy and cost of a state-of-the-art Gen AI-native codebase.

Interview

• Problem-solving excellence and proficiency with python will be tested in the interview.
• There will be a Gen AI-native interview where you will solve a challenging problem using LLMs as building blocks. We will provide plenty of instructions beforehand to prepare for this.

Logistics

• This is a fully remote job in India.
• The founders are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• The joining date is February 2025 or March 2025.

Requirements Must-haves: • Strong Python programming skills • Experience with Flask/Quart/Fast API • Solid understanding of asynchronous programming Good to have: • Strong AI fundamentals. Experience building backend for applied AI/ML solutions. • Experience working on the Azure platforms. --- About CoInvent AI: Founded in September 2023, we've already launched our beta product (Airial Travel) and are backed by notable individuals and institutional investors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our founders have represented India at ICPC World Finals and bring deep expertise in AI, optimization, and scaling products.