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Founding Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA, USA

Full Time

Strala is completely rebuilding the foundation of the world’s largest industry - Insurance Claims Processing.


In just three months, we reached six-figure ARR and raised a 13x oversubscribed $3.8M seed round from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, led by the partner who was early in OpenAI and Scale AI, and Emergence Capital. Our team comes from the top AI labs at Oxford, Cambridge, and ETH Zurich.


What we are looking for

  • Problem Solver - You love solving hard problems (and have a history of doing so).

  • High Agency & Ownership - You take charge and force things into existence - bonus points if you've been a CTO or founding engineer.

  • Proven Builder - 2+ years in backend development and Python, with a track record of fast, production-grade code shipping.

  • Core System Design - You own and are responsible for our core infrastructure, databases (PostgreSQL, vector DBs), and architecture.

  • Cloud Mastery - You know your way around REST, GraphQL, GCP, AWS, Docker.



Your First Month at Strala

  • Ship from Day 1 - You deploy to production on your first day and take full responsibility for your code.

  • Ownership - You create specs, you figure shit out, you build features.

  • Solve Every Problem - Hiring your next teammate, designing core infrastructure, scaling the existing codebase.



Values

  • Ambition: We want to win, and we need to be the best

  • Performance: Speed, system thinking, efficiency

  • Ownership: When we see a problem, we take ownership of it, and we solve it

  • Spirit: Clarity, optimism, meritocracy



We Offer

  • Impact - Shape a company, redefine an industry, and make your code impact millions.

  • Intensity - Complex problems, ownership, 9-9-6 in-person in SF - we are here to solve problems and win.

  • Reward - Interesting work, top quartile salary, founding equity.

  • Team - Everyone on our team considers themselves the most competitive and intense person they have ever met - and we all come from the world’s best institutions.

  • Zero Barriers - We want the best people and will do whatever it takes. That includes full relocation support, covering all meals and paying for any product that makes you more productive.



If this sounds like you, send us your GitHub or tell us about the toughest system you've ever designed to careers@strala.ai.

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