Backend Engineer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Mem0

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Marketing • Consulting

Mem0 is a universal, self-improving memory layer for large language model (LLM) applications that enables persistent, personalized context across AI interactions. It provides a memory compression engine to reduce token usage and latency, developer-friendly one-line installs and APIs, and enterprise features such as SOC 2/HIPAA compliance, BYOK, and on‑prem/private cloud deployment. Mem0 targets developers and enterprises building personalized AI experiences across healthcare, education, e-commerce, customer support, and sales, offering observability, traceability, and local-first options (OpenMemory) for consumer privacy.

📋 Description

• Design and ship REST APIs, including contracts, versioning, authentication, rate limits, migrations, and documentation • Model data and schemas across relational and graph databases, enforcing integrity and performance • Debug customer issues end to end using logs, metrics, and traces; reproduce issues, fix them, and create preventative guardrails • Optimize performance using SQL tuning, EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, indexes, partitioning, pagination, and caching such as Redis • Build Python services using async programming where appropriate, with FastAPI, Django/DRF, or Flask • Develop background jobs, queues, and schedulers • Containerize services with Docker and deploy on Kubernetes/EKS • Operate services using AWS primitives including EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, and IAM • Instrument systems with custom metrics, structured logging, and tracing • Set SLOs and alerts using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry • Collaborate with frontend and research teams to scope APIs and deliver production features • Report directly to Deshraj Yadav, Co-founder and CTO • Work closely with the engineering team in San Francisco

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building backend systems and shipping REST APIs to production • Strong Python fundamentals • Experience with async programming and a major web framework (FastAPI/Django/Flask) • Solid data modeling and SQL skills • Hands-on experience with query tuning and performance debugging in Postgres/MySQL • Experience with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j or Amazon Neptune) • Comfortable running services on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes • Demonstrated root-cause analysis and ownership from incident to prevention • Clear communication and effective collaboration with frontend, research, and customers • GraphQL/gRPC experience is nice to have • Event-driven systems (SNS/SQS/Kafka) and background workers (Celery/RQ) experience is nice to have • Caching, rate limiting, multi-tenancy, and feature-flag strategy experience is nice to have • Security and privacy best practices experience is nice to have • Deep observability experience is nice to have • Prior work with search/retrieval or memory systems is nice to have • On-call experience and running blameless postmortems is nice to have • Prior time at an early-stage startup is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• $24M Series A & Seed backing • Early-stage startup environment • High autonomy and agency to fix problems • High trust and room to run • Code review, idea challenges, and celebration of wins • Opportunity to build long-term foundational systems • Work closely with founders, engineering, frontend, research, and customers