Senior Backend Engineer

Description

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48% of breaches now come through vendors. Yet most companies still manage vendor risk through certifications and questionnaires, essentially trusting what vendors say about their security. Lema changes that. We analyze every vendor like a vulnerability researcher would: how could an attacker use this vendor to get in, and what could they reach?

We’re turning vendor risk from a paperwork exercise into a true security discipline. Backed by Team8, Salesforce Ventures, and F2, and already trusted by leading enterprises, Lema is entering hypergrowth and tripling our team to build a category-defining platform.

We move fast, with radical ownership, transparency, and high impact.

More about Lema:

• Lema.ai website 
• Business Insider - Cybersecurity startup Lema has come out of stealth to raise $24 million
• Team8 - Why We Invested In Lema

About The Role

We’re looking for a a senior backend engineer with 6+ years of experience, playing a key role in building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up. As part of the company’s early engineering team, you’ll help shape both the product and the engineering culture, own backend architecture, lead end-to-end feature development, and drive technical excellence while collaborating closely with product, design, and infrastructure in a fast-growing environment.

What You’ll Do

• Be one of our first 10 engineers, shaping both our product and our engineering culture.
• Define and evolve the backend architecture, infrastructure and development best practices for a fast-growing team.
• Own features end-to-end - from concept and design discussions to implementation, deployment and observability.
• Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines.
• Continuously improve developer workflows - identify friction, integrate new tools, automate repetitive tasks and champion engineering excellence.
• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers: drive planning, break down work, ensure quality delivery and help hire exceptional talent.
• Collaborate with experienced peers - engineers, PMs and designers - who’ve built large-scale systems at top-tier companies.
• Here are some of the technologies we work with: Golang, Python, Protobuf, React, Typescript, Kafka, Postgresql, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS

Requirements

What You Bring

• A seasoned backend engineer (4+ years) who thrives on building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up.
• Experienced in designing and scaling modern microservices architectures (both BE and FE integration).
• Capable of taking complex features from design to deployment, owning every stage of the backend lifecycle - while guiding others to do the same.
• Pragmatic about code quality: confident refactoring, simplifying and deleting code when needed.
• Comfortable leading code reviews, defining engineering standards and collaborating across product, design and infrastructure.

Why Join Lema AI

• Impact: Build a category-defining platform that safeguards how modern businesses operate.
• Ownership: Join a culture that gives you full context, autonomy, and trust to drive outcomes.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary, equity package, and additional perks
• Velocity: Work with exceptional peers in a high-energy, low-bureaucracy environment.
• Growth: Shape a company that’s scaling rapidly, backed by Tier 1 investors and visionary customers.