Senior Backend Engineer

Praha
Full-time

Waypoint AI helps engineering teams triage, route, and resolve technical
escalations and automatically generates postmortems. We are building an all-
round AI-powered support assistant for modern engineering teams, ingesting
support and engineering data to provide the best available guidance through
resolution.

We are a Czech-American B2B startup. We raised CZK 60M earlier this year and
already work with early customers using Waypoint in production.

About the Team
Weʼre a small team doing big things - tackling hard problems, exploring new
ideas, and working with people who care about both the craft and each other.
Weʼre enthusiastic about AI and treat it as a daily collaborator: we have good
experience with vibe coding and pair-programming with AI, using it for code
review, debugging, and design exploration, and actively experiment with how AI
can make us faster and better engineers. We treat AI as a multiplier - not a
substitute for good engineering judgment. Weʼre opinionated but curious, and we
value thoughtful discussion over ego.

What youʼll do

Own vertical slices end‑to‑end with a backend emphasis.
Operate background work with Dramatiq ( idempotency, retries, scheduling ) to power durable workflows and integrations.
Design and build typed HTTP APIs; keep them fast, well‑documented, and maintainable.
Evolve Postgres schemas safely (migrations, data backfills) with a focus on correctness and transactional integrity.
Measure what matters: logs/metrics/tracing and reliability.Senior Backend Engineer (AI Systems)
Keep things secure and privacy‑aware by default.
Ship changes through CI/CD pipelines and take responsibility for production behavior.
Collaborate with product & design; build minimal UIs when it unblocks learning.
Use AI pair‑programmers (Cursor, Claude Code) to move fast, but we value correctness, refactoring, and sustainable pace.

You might be a fit if you

Have strong backend foundations (HTTP, SQL, transactions, indexing, caching) and sound engineering judgment.
Have experience or eagerness with Django/Ninja, Postgres, typed Python, and pytest.
Are comfortable in containerized dev flows and automation (Makefiles, Docker Compose); CI/CD experience.
Care about high-level system architecture and long-term system evolution.
Have clear written communication; you document decisions and think in small, shippable slices.

Nice to Have

Redis and search basics; realtime experience (Channels/WebSockets) when needed.
IaC and cloud familiarity.
You are comfortable overlapping into modern frontend when needed (React/Next/TS/Tailwind) and product‑minded decision maker.
Frontend work is pragmatic and purpose-driven—not pixel-perfect UI ownership.
LLM product experience: evaluations, cost and latency controls; vector search, knowledge graphs.
You enjoy domain modeling (DDD) and clean boundaries - domain‑driven design instincts: good naming, boundaries, and evolution over time.
“You build it, you run itˮ mentality.
Exposure to or interest in event sourcing architecture.

Why Waypoint

Real ownership across APIs, data, and background jobs; measurable impact, fast feedback loops.
Weʼre at the stage where early architectural decisions matter, and youʼll help shape the system before habits calcify.
Sharp, kind teammates who value craft and pragmatism.
Flexible location/hours: We have a beautiful office space at Prague 7 (Holešovice) in a modern quiet area with the possibility to work remotely.
Competitive compensation (aligned with senior CZ market) and meaningful equity.

How to Apply
Send us:

Your application together with a CV or a link to your LinkedIn profile.
A project or feature you shipped end‑to‑end, or your personal github repository.
A brief note on how you use Cursor or Claude Code in your daily work routine.