# Member of Technical Staff (Backend) at Atg

> Hybrid · United States · Staff · Backend · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Aatg%3Aa37e306f-edf5-4baf-8743-75d7d75bb7a4 (read 2026-11-15).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Atg](https://alderhq.app/companies/atg)
- Location text: New York City; San Francisco
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: New York City; San Francisco")
- Posted: 2025-07-15 (488 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-09
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atg/a37e306f-edf5-4baf-8743-75d7d75bb7a4
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, Go, Rust, C++, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $180k–$260k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 52): p25 $210k, median $236k, p75 $254k

## Description (the employer's text)

### About us

ATG (Autonomous Technologies Group) is an AI lab deploying frontier reasoning systems within financial markets. Autonomous is an agentic wealth manager built on this foundation.

Founders: Early GPU cloud (9 figure exit).

Investors: Led by Garry Tan / YC with participation from one of the most successful quant funds, BoxGroup (Plaid, Ramp, Stripe), and other top-tier angels.

### About the Role

You’ll architect, build, and maintain the distributed systems, APIs, and backend infrastructure that power world-class AI research and deployment. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, robust data flows, and scalable compute. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in small, high-agency teams.

### Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable backend services, data pipelines, and APIs

Build infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency AI/ML workflows

Set up and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL), including schema design, replication, indexing, and performance optimization

Optimize for performance, reliability, and security at every layer

Implement observability best practices (logging, tracing, monitoring, performance tuning)

Work closely with research and infra teams to support experimental velocity

Contribute to core engineering culture, including code reviews and mentorship

### Requirements

3+ years building distributed systems or high-availability backends (preferably in fast-moving or high-stakes environments)

Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C++)

Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

Database setup, management, and optimization experience (SQL/NoSQL)

Relentless focus on code quality, correctness, and performance

Comfortable leveraging modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to increase productivity & code output while maintaining high code quality, maintainability, and structure

### Bonus – Agentic workflows / applied AI integration

Experience supporting or integrating agentic AI workflows into backend systems (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Haystack, or custom frameworks)

Familiarity with persistence/checkpointing, streaming pipelines, and vector/knowledge store integrations

### Why Join ATG

We're building a small, elite team. If you're excited by AI, markets, and building from first principles, we’d love to meet you.

Work on AI with a massive market opportunity

Early team of repeat founders backed by top investors

High agency, talent dense, zero bureaucracy

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