Malay, come build the backend behind Town.
You've spent your career making infrastructure tractable — production LLM infra at Harvey, the authorization and identity platform at Databricks, high-QPS systems that don't fall over. Town is hiring a foundational Staff Backend Engineer, and the problem is built for you.
Why this role has your name on it
Town backs people with outlier strengths, not well-rounded résumés. Here's where yours line up with what we need to build next.
You already live in production LLM infrastructure
Town's backend is non-deterministic, cost-sensitive LLM workloads — exactly the terrain you own at a frontier AI company today. You'd build the orchestration layer for agentic workflows and the multi-provider LLM infrastructure underneath it.
You've built an authorization and identity layer from scratch
You orchestrated Databricks' next-generation authorization system with granular permissions and horizontal auto-scaling. Town needs someone to design the identity and knowledge layer that makes every interaction smarter than the last.
You make high-traffic systems reliable
You paginated a 0.5M QPS API to a 99.99% latency SLA and migrated 50 production regions with minimal downtime. Town's real-time personalization across a growing knowledge graph needs exactly that reliability instinct.
You want a foundational, end-to-end seat
You're looking for a technical-lead role in a culture of collective growth. Town is a foundational hire with direct influence over architecture — greenfield, owned end to end, no platform team to hand things off to.
The role
Staff Backend Engineer — full-time, in person at Town's Financial District office in San Francisco. A foundational hire who owns the backend end to end.
Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time
Built by people who've built before
Jean-Denis Greze
Former CTO of Plaid, where he led engineering, product, and design from $10M to $300M+ in ARR.
Tony Vincent
Former Director of Applied AI Product at Google; founded Aspen (acquired by Google) and Sold (acquired by Dropbox).
Angela Zhang
Founding engineer at Town (Engineering #1). Previously engineering manager and chief of staff to the CTO at Plaid, and infrastructure engineer at Quora.
Town just raised a $55M Series A led by Alex Rampell at Andreessen Horowitz, with Forerunner, and continued support from First Round Capital, Alt Capital, and Conviction.
Ready when you are, Malay.
No application forms, no cover letters. If this resonates, let's just have a conversation about the role and where Town is headed.