Skill needed: Team Leadership, Python, Cybersecurity, Cloud.
Employer: Alinia AI
🚀 Your Role at Alinia As Alinia’s Lead Backend Engineer, you will play a foundational role in building and securing the infrastructure that underpins our AI guardrails and compliance platform. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and privacy-first backend systems — ensuring our enterprise customers in finance and other regulated industries can safely deploy generative AI in compliance with the highest security standards. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup, has a strong engineering foundation, deep awareness of data privacy and compliance requirements, and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams. At Alinia, you’ll play a key role in scaling the company and setting the bar for technical excellence, velocity, and trust. 🔧 Role Overview and Responsibilities As lead backend engineer, you will be responsible for: Technical Leadership & Architecture ● Set and lead the implementation of the technical roadmap aligned with Product Strategy in partnership with leadership. ● Own core architectural decisions across the platform to ensure robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. ● Lead the implementation of robust, scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. ● Mentor junior engineers and manage the day-to-day activities of the backend development team. ● Overview monitoring, alerting, and robust CI/CD pipelines. Cross-functional Collaboration ● Work with product, research, design and compliance experts on product development to deliver a cohesive user experience. ● Support sales calls, demos, and technical evaluations. ● Partner with customers’ security and compliance teams during pilots and deployments. Security & Privacy Engineering ● Ensure data security, integrity, and overall system performance. ● Build backend systems aligned with SOC 2, ISO 42001, GDPR, and the EU AI Act. ● Implement encryption, access controls, audit logs, and other privacy-by-design safeguards. ● Regularly test for vulnerabilities and drive security hardening. ● Ensure compliance with data residency and VPC/on-prem requirements for enterprise clients. Team & Culture ● Help hire and onboard a high-performing, cross-functional engineering team. ● Help define and instill engineering processes and best practices. Vendors and Budget Management ● Manage relationships with key technical vendors, partners, and cloud providers. ● Optimize compute and cloud spend and technical tooling; evaluate and secure credits where possible. (e.g., AWS, GCP, Modal). 🧠 What You Bring Minimum Qualifications ● 5+ years of relevant experience with 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role. ● Experience deploying or working with LLMs or platforms. ● Strong understanding and previous experience with data security and privacy practices (encryption, IAM, logging, privacy-by-design) and compliance in an enterprise SaaS context. ● Understanding and prior experience implementing compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR, ISO 27001). ● Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern backend/frontend stacks (Python, Svelte/React). ● Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to translate complex technical ideas for varied audiences. Preferred Qualifications ● Strong product sense and a user-first mindset. ● Startup 0-to-1 experience and ability to embrace ambiguity. ● Experience with distributed systems and high performing systems. ● Experience supporting VPC or on-prem enterprise deployments. ● Experience working with or integrating LLM inference pipelines. ● Ability to thrive in customer-facing roles: sales support, success engineering, PoCs. ● Background in regulated industries (finance, insurance, healthcare). 🎯 What We Offer ● Equity: Competitive equity package to share in our success. ● Growth: Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. ● Innovation: Work on cutting-edge AI products that are transforming industries. ● Culture: Collaborative, inclusive, and dynamic startup culture. ● Impact: Make a significant impact on the direction and success of our products. Alinia’s MissionWe are an early-stage AI startup on a mission to help organizations deploy generative AI applications safely, responsibly, and at scale. If you’re excited about building foundational infrastructure for enterprise-grade GenAI, and thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments, we’d love to hear from you. Our platform and API ensure organizations can deploy LLMs in a secure, controlled, and auditable way. We’re creating the most trustworthy foundation for AI in the enterprise — where governance, alignment, and compliance are built-in from day one.