{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"fcda955de4c78a0a705bd476","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fcda955de4c78a0a705bd476","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fcda955de4c78a0a705bd476","title":"Backend Engineer","description":"Known - Backend Engineer\n\nSan Francisco, CA (In-Person)\n\n$200k–$350k Cash + Equity\n\nKnown is a matchmaker that talks to users and supports them like a friend. Our mission is to make finding love one of the defining achievements of abundant general intelligence.\n\nUsers join Known by telling us their life story. On average, they spend 27 minutes talking to our conversational AI, sharing the experiences, hopes, and complexities that make them who they are. This gives us an extraordinary depth of personal context, and an even greater responsibility to earn and protect the trust behind it.\n\nWe are a team of ex-founders, engineers, and go-to-market operators who've helped build and scaled some of the world's most influential consumer AI products, including Uber, Uber Eats, Airbnb, Bland, and Faire.\n\nWe love to work hard, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We work together in Cow Hollow, San Francisco.\n\nLearn more\n\nKnown - App Store\n\nKnown's $10M Seed | TechCrunch\n\nThe Agentic 20 | Forbes\n\nKnown | NBC Bay Area\n\n\"You Don't Need to Swipe Right\" - Known | NYT\n\nSF Hot List\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe're looking for exceptional backend engineers to build the infrastructure that powers Known's core product, from real-time conversational AI to intelligent matchmaking and autonomous agents.\n\nThis is a unique opportunity to contribute to the technical foundation for an AI-native consumer product. You'll work across distributed systems, data infrastructure, and AI integrations, solving complex engineering problems at the intersection of large-scale consumer applications and frontier AI.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nIt's up to you to decide what part of the backend stack you're most excited about working on.\n\nThis could be:\n\nDesigning and scaling the backend services, APIs, and infrastructure that power Known's core consumer experience\n\nBuilding real-time systems that support conversational AI, voice interactions, and agentic workflows\n\nArchitecting data pipelines and storage systems to support matchmaking, personalization, and machine learning\n\nDeveloping reliable, low-latency services that connect our AI agents to real-world actions and third-party integrations\n\nImproving the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our systems as we grow to millions of users\n\nYou will own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and scaling.\n\nRequirements\n\n4–6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production backend systems\n\nStrong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Java)\n\nExperience designing APIs, distributed systems, and scalable service architectures\n\nExperience with relational databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and data infrastructure\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure and deployment (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP)\n\nStrong product intuition and a bias toward shipping, iterating, and taking ownership\n\nYou want to build technology that could lead to a million marriages and babies\n\nOur Investors\n\nWe're backed by Eurie Kim and Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures (the investors behind Decagon, Faire, and Oura), NFX and PearVC.","company":"Known","rawCompany":"known","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T11:51:32.717Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.00","title":"Computer Occupations, All Other","slug":"computer-occupations-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Backend Engineer","description":"Known - Backend Engineer\n\nSan Francisco, CA (In-Person)\n\n$200k–$350k Cash + Equity\n\nKnown is a matchmaker that talks to users and supports them like a friend. 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You'll work across distributed systems, data infrastructure, and AI integrations, solving complex engineering problems at the intersection of large-scale consumer applications and frontier AI.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nIt's up to you to decide what part of the backend stack you're most excited about working on.\n\nThis could be:\n\nDesigning and scaling the backend services, APIs, and infrastructure that power Known's core consumer experience\n\nBuilding real-time systems that support conversational AI, voice interactions, and agentic workflows\n\nArchitecting data pipelines and storage systems to support matchmaking, personalization, and machine learning\n\nDeveloping reliable, low-latency services that connect our AI agents to real-world actions and third-party integrations\n\nImproving the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our systems as we grow to millions of users\n\nYou will own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and scaling.\n\nRequirements\n\n4–6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production backend systems\n\nStrong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Java)\n\nExperience designing APIs, distributed systems, and scalable service architectures\n\nExperience with relational databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and data infrastructure\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure and deployment (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP)\n\nStrong product intuition and a bias toward shipping, iterating, and taking ownership\n\nYou want to build technology that could lead to a million marriages and babies\n\nOur Investors\n\nWe're backed by Eurie Kim and Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures (the investors behind Decagon, Faire, and Oura), NFX and PearVC.","datePosted":"2026-10-21T11:51:32.717Z","dateModified":"2026-10-21T11:51:32.717Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Known","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"fcda955de4c78a0a705bd476"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fcda955de4c78a0a705bd476"}}