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Equall | Backend Engineer, Foundations | New York, NY | ONSITE | Full-time | $160K–$250K + equity
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software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification
Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.
Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer
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Equall is an AI-native platform for corporate legal work in private markets. We extract and reconcile legal information from source documents (charters, SPAs, board consents) and produce auditable outputs: cap table tie-outs, governance dashboards, personnel summaries. Law firms use us to do due diligence in hours instead of weeks. Working with leading ECVC firms now, expanding into PE and M&A.
The role: own the knowledge graph at the core of the platform. Design the public APIs, build the Prefect pipelines that turn documents into structured graph data, run it in production on Kubernetes.
Stack: Python, Prefect, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes.
Need: production backend experience (Python, Go, Rust, or Zig), data pipelines at scale, strong views on API design, comfort on k8s.
Bonus: built a graph DB, designed workflow orchestration, integrated LLM workflows into backend infra, Kafka.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equall/48013ed1-8fab-4b49-b926-6d7e252c1086 and mention HN.
The role: own the knowledge graph at the core of the platform. Design the public APIs, build the Prefect pipelines that turn documents into structured graph data, run it in production on Kubernetes.
Stack: Python, Prefect, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes.
Need: production backend experience (Python, Go, Rust, or Zig), data pipelines at scale, strong views on API design, comfort on k8s.
Bonus: built a graph DB, designed workflow orchestration, integrated LLM workflows into backend infra, Kafka.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/equall/48013ed1-8fab-4b49-b926-6d7e252c1086 and mention HN.