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x.ai - NY - Backend Engineer At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed. A Backend Engineer will: - Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out of free form text - Jump between architecture, implementation, infrastructure management, and firefighting - Design and build a system that enables seamless human-machine interactions - Solve various optimization and constraint problems related to coordinating people’s schedules and preferences - Integrate with various external APIs - Constantly improve our development processes and tools to reduce friction from idea to deployment Ideal Candidate: - Build maintainable, well tested and scalable code - Experience with building big data processing system - Data modeling and architectural skills - BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field) - Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that is comfortable with uncertainties - Want to be part of a passionate and collaborative team, looking to make a mark in the world - Our backend is built in Scala so direct experience will be preferred - Bonus: Experience with AWS, MongoDB and EMR/Hadoop https://x.ai/jobs/#backend