Security & Backend Engineer

Boam AI builds managed data solutions that turn messy, unstructured signals from public, private, and proprietary sources into structured, reliable, and always up-to-date intelligence on millions of SMBs and enterprises worldwide. These agentic systems power CRMs, data warehouses, AI products, and mission-critical decisions across the enterprise.

As a Security & Backend Engineer, you will own core pieces of our Scala + Python backend while raising the bar on how we protect data, systems, and customers. You will design and build backend services, shape secure-by-default patterns, and lead practical security work across authentication, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure. This is a role for someone who enjoys hard backend problems and has a meaningful security background, but does not want a purely specialized security seat.

What You'll Do

• Design and ship reliable, scalable services with senior engineers
• Work on data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery
• Build and operate backend services and APIs that power the core product
• Embed secure-by-default patterns in services, data flows, and infrastructure
• Identify risks early in product design and propose pragmatic solutions
• Guide the engineering team toward secure defaults in code, infrastructure, and workflows
• Harden cloud environments, networks, and services to reduce the attack surface
• Work with ML and data teams on secure handling of models and data
• Partner with customers to ensure their integrations with our platform are safe and seamless

You Might Be a Fit If...

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
• Owned security-sensitive systems (auth, permissions, secrets, data access controls)
• Strong skills in Python or Scala, ideally both over time
• Applied secure practices across data, code, and infrastructure
• Comfortable with modern cloud deployments and IaC
• Hands-on with security reviews, threat modeling, and hardening
• Enjoy balancing new feature delivery with long-term hardening and scale
• Thrive without heavy process or QA buffers and own what you ship
• Motivated by real user impact and keeping critical systems safe

Why Boam AI

• Join a no-politics, high-trust, low-ego, high-talent team
• Own backend and security work on mission-critical systems
• Work directly with founders and the Head of Engineering
• High autonomy, clear ownership, and visible impact from day one
• Operate at the intersection of AI, data, security, and enterprise workflows
• Top-tier compensation with meaningful equity upside
• Help shape our security posture, patterns, and engineering culture

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