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title: 'Backend Engineer at Fathom'
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# Backend Engineer at Fathom

- **Company:** Fathom
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $180k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/50323c12-96b2-4e6a-b8ea-98f21ea6e960

## Job description

## ABOUT FATHOM

We created Fathom to eliminate the needless overhead of meetings. Our AI assistant captures, summarizes, and organizes the key moments of your calls, so you and your team can stay fully present without sacrificing context or clarity. From instant, searchable call summaries to seamless CRM updates and team-wide sharing, Fathom transforms meetings from a source of friction into a place for alignment and momentum. We’re a small company that creates magical experiences through the hard work of focused builders. We try to live our values - Care Deeply, Seek Leverage, Share Ownership, Sustain Urgency, and Be Tenacious - in everything we do, every day.

We started Fathom to rid us all of the tyranny of note-taking, and people seem to really love what we've built so far: 🥇 [#1 Most Used App of the Year on HubSpot for 2025](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432475997863559168/) 🔥 [#1 Rated on G2 with 4,500+ reviews and a perfect 5/5 rating](https://www.g2.com/products/fathom-2021-09-22/reviews) 🥇 [#1 Product of the Day and #2 AI Product of the Year](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fathom-2) 🚀 Most installed AI meeting assistant on both the [Zoom](https://marketplace.zoom.us/apps/JgSwuY4ZSGim6_OPRZV0Ig) and [HubSpot](https://app.hubspot.com/ecosystem/20372723/marketplace/apps/sales/sales-enablement/ai-notetaker-by-fathom) marketplaces 📈 We’re hitting revenue and [usage records every week](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLW4Wd7ZNC7WHTAaw__OYlU8WGaQAx2E/view?usp=drive_link)

We think you’ll be pretty excited about Fathom too if you give it a try. [Sign up today](http://fathom.ai) (it’s free)!

## ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of mission-critical services, and who is equally comfortable developing new services or tackling long-tail problems with existing services. As part of our team, you’ll play a critical role in improving customer experiences by scaling our services and contributing to our culture of innovation and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with our backend, infrastructure, and application engineers, as well as our outstanding customer support team to deliver an unmatched customer experience.

## HOW YOU’LL HELP US WIN

Contribute to our collection of highly-scalable services (some stateless, some stateful). Our services run in multiple regions, are engineered to support spiky but predictable workloads, and are deployed via multi-stage rollouts to build confidence in the correctness and efficiency of changes.

- By 30 Days
- Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members
- Analyze the runtime and cost efficiencies of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for improvements
- By 90 Days
- Lead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layer
- Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions
- Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services.
- By 1 Year
- Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary friction

## REQUIREMENTS

Hard Skills

- Proficiency with Rails (or another full-stack framework), including a strong understanding of ActiveRecord (or an analogous ORM), database schema design, and query performance + optimization.
- Proficiency with k8s and Go (or another systems language), including a strong understanding of garbage collection and profiling. Experience with Cgo is a bonus.
- Familiarity with our tech stack (or equivalents): GCP/GKE, Linux, Docker, Ruby/Rails, Redis, ffmpeg
- Experience in a SaaS or PaaS environment at our scale (currently 100s of millions of async jobs per week). Experience with video streaming at scale is a bonus.

Soft Skills

- Curiosity-driven and pragmatic with a focus on delivering results
- A generalist mindset with the ability to dive deep into a wide range of challenges
- Resilience, attention to detail, and an ability to grind through complex problems
- Openness to disagreement and commitment to decisions once made
- Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex insights in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Independence in managing one’s workload and priorities

## WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

- The opportunity to shape the foundational software services of a growing company
- A role that balances innovation and incremental improvement
- A dynamic and collaborative engineering team
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- A supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal growth

## WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US

- Opportunity for impact. We’re established enough to ship instead of fighting fires and early enough that your work will have a real impact.
- Startup experience. You’ll work closely with our CEO, a 2X Founder/CEO with a background in computer science and product design.
- We embrace being fully remote. We schedule meetings sparingly and instead heavily use async comms (Slack, Notion, Loom)

## ABOUT THE INTERVIEW

- No live coding. We have no idea who thought writing code on whiteboards was a good idea but we hate it. We’re much more interested in what you’ve done and learned.
- You’ll meet the entire team. We think it’s important that you get to meet everyone you’ll be working with.
- No bullshit. Ask us anything you like. We’ve never understood why companies pretend they’re something that they’re not in the hiring process - you’re going to find out eventually so we’d rather you know who we are up front so we can both make sure this is a good fit for all involved.
- Quick turnaround time. We know you have lots of options so we move fast usually in less than a week from start to finish.

## About Fathom

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker that automatically transcribes, summarizes, and captures action items from meetings to help teams stay present and move work forward.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $17M raised in September 2024)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Richard White

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Meeting Assistant / SaaS (Software as a Service)
- **Target customers**: B2B – sales, customer success, engineering, operations, marketing, recruiting teams across SMB and enterprise
- **Mission statement**: “Capture what matters in every meeting so individuals and teams can stay present and move work forward with clarity and confidence.”

## Products & Services
- **Fathom AI Notetaker** (SaaS): AI-powered meeting companion that works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Automatically generates notes, summaries, action items, and searchable transcripts. Syncs with CRM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot) and productivity platforms (Slack, Notion, Asana). Features include “Ask Fathom” for questioning past meetings, real-time coaching with AI Scorecards, bot-free mode, and mobile/in-person support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$21.8M** across multiple rounds (most recent Series A: $17M, September 2024); estimated annual revenue of **$5.0M**
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2021 batch), along with a group of angel investors (e.g., Jacob Rosenberg, Nik Zechner). Found on G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards Top 100 and HubSpot’s 2025 Most Used App of the Year.
- **Growth Signals**: 144 employees (+15.6% YoY, +25 people); 95% of users report saving 6+ hours per week; listed on Y Combinator with a team size of ~95 (2024); operates in 19 countries; growing headcount in engineering, AI, and growth roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Flexibility**: Works bot or bot-free on any call; supports desktop, mobile, and in-person meetings.
- **Deep integrations**: Seamless sync with CRM, project management, and communication tools (Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, etc.).
- **“Ask Fathom”**: Enables natural-language search across all meeting history with cited answers.
- **Brand recognition**: #1 AI Notetaker on G2, HubSpot’s Most Used App of the Year.
- **Founder pedigree**: Richard White previously founded and led UserVoice (successful B2B SaaS platform).

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding API and integrations with AI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT) and custom workflows.
- Enhancing AI capabilities (coaching, scorecards, pattern detection across conversations).
- Scaling the team, particularly in engineering, AI, and product roles.
- Extending reach into enterprise and global markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven startup focused on making every conversation useful; Y Combinator culture of autonomy and impact; small, nimble team with high ownership.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Remote-first (US/CA), with some roles in San Francisco. Most job listings are fully remote.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive salaries ($140K–$240K depending on role), equity, flexible schedule, and the chance to shape a rapidly growing product used by hundreds of thousands of companies.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building thoughtful, low-friction products; strong technical leadership (CTO Nick Kraft, founding engineer Tai-Lin Chu).

## Sources
1. [fathom.ai](https://www.fathom.ai/) – company homepage
2. [fathom.ai/about-us](https://www.fathom.ai/about-us) – about page, mission, product details
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fathom-video) – company stats, headcount, funding, revenue
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fathom) – YC profile, team size, founder background
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video) – careers page, job listings, engineering culture

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