Backend Engineer at Collate

Compensation

$150,000 – $350,000/yr

Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Posted: Aug 18, 2025

Description

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences, automating paperwork to accelerate the delivery of life-saving innovations. The company is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and scale its core systems, build APIs, services, and infrastructure, and ensure platform performance, reliability, and security. This role offers the opportunity to work with a modern tech stack (Go, Postgres, TypeScript, React, Python for AI/ML, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, S3, Kafka, OpenSearch, LLMs) in an early-stage startup environment with experienced founders and significant funding, directly impacting healthcare.

Required Skills

Go
Postgres
TypeScript
React
Python
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Argo CD
S3
Kafka
OpenSearch
LLMs

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Experience designing and scaling backend systems in production.
Strong skills in building APIs and services, with attention to reliability and performance.
Preferred Qualifications: Comfort working across the stack when needed, with a focus on backend depth.
Ability to move quickly while building for long-term maintainability.
Excitement to work in an early-stage startup where ownership is high and impact is immediate.
A collaborative, humble approach and eagerness to learn whatever is needed to solve the problem