Backend Engineer – Extensions

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🕒 June 22

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Fundamental

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2024

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

Fundamental is an enterprise AI company that builds large tabular models (LTMs) such as NEXUS, pre-trained on billions of tables to detect patterns and predict outcomes from structured data. The company offers an enterprise-grade predictive analytics platform that can be deployed with minimal code or integrated deeply with cloud partners like AWS, emphasizing privacy, security, and scalability. Born from academic research and backed by major investors, Fundamental targets large organizations seeking to extract foresight from their databases and deploy predictive models at cloud scale.

📋 Description

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Extensions capabilities end to end • Design and build distributed workflows that are efficient, reproducible, and observable in production • Collaborate closely with Data Scientists on the team to deeply understand requirements and translate them into engineering decisions • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring Extensions capabilities meet the latency and throughput demands of enterprise deployments • Contribute to architectural decisions around how Extensions integrates with the broader NEXUS backend • Write clean, well-tested Python code and hold a high bar for code quality across the team • Contribute to internal engineering documentation and help establish best practices for backend development within the team

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong focus on Python • Excellent Python skills - you write clean, idiomatic, well-tested code and know the language deeply • Solid experience designing and operating distributed systems at production scale • Strong understanding of concurrency, task execution, and workflow orchestration patterns • Experience building systems that are reproducible, observable, and easy to debug in production • Ability to work closely with non-engineering counterparts and translate complex requirements into reliable implementations • Strong ownership mindset - you drive work end to end and care about outcomes, not just output

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity • Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents • Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys • Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations • A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action