--- title: 'Backend Engineer - Low-Latency Systems at Chiri' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/backend-engineer-low-latency-systems-chiri-south-a67mgjvavcst' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Backend Engineer - Low-Latency Systems at Chiri - **Company:** Chiri - **Location:** South, United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/chiri/am9icG9zdDrMrak0nDt9fMc_l6lE5WKB ## Job description ## About Chiri Chiri collapses fragmented software into one governed operating layer for mid-sized businesses: companies with valuable workflows and real urgency, but no internal AI organization to take a use case to production. We combine our platform with forward-deployed expertise to connect customers' existing systems, build what they need, and operate it in production. Increasingly, buyers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI systems what they should use. Chiri must be one of their top answers. ## Role Overview We're looking for a highly capable Backend Engineer to build fast, reliable, production-grade services for a transaction-intensive healthcare and pharmacy-finance platform. This role requires a strong engineering foundation in concurrency, parallel programming, memory management, code profiling, and performance optimization. You'll help build the services supporting real-time claim validation, decision engines, data processing, and enterprise integrations. ## Key Responsibilities - Performance Engineering: Develop backend services designed for demanding latency and throughput requirements. - Concurrency & Parallelism: Build efficient concurrent systems with careful attention to threading, asynchronous execution, synchronization, and memory utilization. - Profiling & Optimization: Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through code profiling, benchmarking, load testing, and runtime analysis. - Cold-Start Performance: Design and optimize initialization, warm-up, and cold-start mechanisms to minimize processing delays. - Decision Systems: Implement reliable APIs, validation workflows, and rules-based processing with predictable and testable behavior. - Production Reliability: Ensure correctness, error handling, observability, security, and operational stability. Required Skills and Experience - Strong production backend engineering experience, preferably with Golang. - Demonstrated expertise in concurrent and parallel programming, including race conditions, synchronization, and resource contention. - Deep understanding of memory management, application runtime behavior, and performance profiling. - Proven ability to optimize latency and throughput in production systems. - Strong fundamentals in statistics, including distributions, percentiles, variability, and performance measurement. - Experience with APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems. - Experience with Docker, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD. - Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience in competitive programming. - Experience building payment, transaction-processing, financial, or healthcare systems. - Experience optimizing serverless execution and cold-start behavior. - Experience with deterministic rules engines, real-time decision systems, or high-volume event processing. ## What We Offer The opportunity to solve challenging performance problems and build the core transaction-processing capabilities of a new production platform. ## About Chiri ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Chiri is an AI orchestration platform that helps companies build governed, scalable AI-powered workflows alongside their human teams, positioning itself as an "AI Sherpa" for enterprises transitioning from AI-nascent to AI-native. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Early Stage based on headcount and funding indicators) - **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly listed) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Enterprise Software / AI Orchestration & Governance - **Target Customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise companies (e.g., B2B security firms, operations-heavy businesses) - **Mission/Purpose**: To lead companies safely and successfully from AI-nascent to AI-native, ensuring no business is left behind by AI. ## Products & Services - **ChiriBrain**: The core governance and orchestration layer that scales AI workflows, connects across 2,000+ tools and 350+ AI models, and provides cost controls, audit trails, and confidence thresholds. It acts as a "system of action" on top of existing infrastructure. - **Forward-Deployed Engineering Services**: Chiri sends in engineers to learn how a client's team works, map high-value workflows, and build custom AI-powered systems. This service precedes the software deployment. - **AI Agent Workflows**: Pre-built and custom AI agents that operate in existing tools like Slack, Gmail, and Teams, automating tasks such as inventory management, GTM pipeline enrichment, and finance reconciliation. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: 11 total employees (as of 2025); reports client outcomes such as $60K/mo saved (6x faster AI adoption), $450K/yr savings (3x faster AI optimization), and $900K saved (4x faster AI software engineering). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025 and already reports significant client savings; actively hiring across multiple engineering roles (Full Stack, Mobile, QA, Data Platform); operates in 18 locations with a hybrid work model. ## Competitive Advantages - **"Services + Software" Model**: Unlike pure-play AI software vendors, Chiri starts with human engineers who embed with client teams, ensuring the AI foundation is custom-built for actual workflows before deploying the platform. - **Enterprise-Grade Governance**: Provides 100% audited workflows, cost controls, and a governance layer designed for scale from day one, addressing a key pain point for enterprises wary of ungoverned AI. - **Integration Depth**: Connects to 2,000+ tools and 350+ AI models, meaning clients do not need to rip out existing infrastructure. - **Proven ROI**: Publishes concrete client case studies with dollar amounts and time savings, demonstrating measurable value. ## Strategic Focus - **Current Priorities**: Scaling the forward-deployed engineering team; building out the ChiriBrain platform for broader enterprise adoption; expanding the number of pre-built agent workflows; and maintaining a "system-led approach" that combines human expertise with AI agents. - **Growth Direction**: Moving from bespoke client engagements to a repeatable, scalable platform that enterprises can run independently after initial setup. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as ambitious, with a focus on shaping the future of Human+AI teams. The company emphasizes a "Sherpa" mentality—carrying the weight for clients and not leaving them at base camp. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid workspace; employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work. Typical on-site time is not specified but roles are listed as remote across 18-20 locations. - **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Engineers own features end-to-end and work directly with clients to deliver measurable business outcomes. Roles emphasize backend focus, API design, AI-powered features, and collaboration across product and client teams. Open roles include Full Stack, Mobile (iOS/Flutter), QA, and Data Platform engineers. ## Sources 1. [chiri.ai](https://chiri.ai/) 2. [chiri.ai/careers](https://chiri.ai/careers) 3. [builtin.com/company/chiri](https://builtin.com/company/chiri) 4. [linkedin.com/company/chiriai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/chiriai) 5. 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