Helix AI Engineer, Backend
$200k - $400k • San Jose, CA
Posted 9d ago
About the job
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. We are seeking a backend engineer to build the services and infrastructure for Figure's consumer mobile application, encompassing areas like authentication, payments, and tooling. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of systems, from identity and billing to delivery pipelines, internal dashboards, and the cloud platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the core auth and identity service, including KYC integration.
- Build payments and billing infrastructure: payouts, transactions, disputes, and reconciliation.
- Own the media ingestion and delivery pipeline for high-volume data ingestion.
- Own the cloud platform: environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and cost.
- Ship the notification system across push, SMS, and email.
- Build the web interface and dashboards for business visibility into tasks, supply, and quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: APIs, queues, storage, and event-driven architecture.
- Hands-on experience with payments, billing, or fintech infrastructure.
- Hands-on infrastructure experience: AWS or GCP, Terraform or similar, containers, and CI/CD.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar.
- Experience shipping reliable systems that handle real money transactions for users.