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title: 'Backend Engineer at Pump.co'
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# Backend Engineer at Pump.co

- **Company:** Pump.co
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2025-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers/jobs/4754286008

## Job description

## About Pump.co

Gartner predicts that cloud spend will be over $2T/yr by 2030, making it the fastest-growing expense for tech companies. Managing it well demands constant engineering effort—time that could be spent building your product.

At Pump, we're building the fastest way to save ~60% on cloud costs. Our AI-powered platform not only automates savings but also leverages the power of group buying for even deeper discounts. Backed by Y Combinator, we’re on a mission to transform cloud cost optimization through AI.

Our founding team includes experienced entrepreneurs with prior exits, and our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and flat in structure. If you’re excited about shipping real impact and joining a team at an early, career-defining stage—we’d love to meet you.

## About the Role

Skills: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes (nice to have), LLM/AI (bonus)

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll contribute directly to the core of our product and infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone looking to grow within a strong engineering team while delivering meaningful work that touches real customers.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and founders—working across the stack to build, improve, and scale our platform.

We are 5 days a week in office. No remote work will be considered.

## What You’ll Do

- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power the Pump platform
- Work with the team to define and scope new product features
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture by participating in code reviews and continuous improvement
- Help extend our internal tools, dev workflows, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure system reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Collaborate across functions to solve real customer problems with intuitive engineering solutions

## What We’re Looking For

- 3–15 years of professional backend engineering experience
- Ability to work 5 days a week in office
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with FastAPI or similar frameworks
- Experience with SQL databases—we use PostgreSQL
- Comfort working in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes (nice to have)
- Excitement about early-stage startups and the ability to thrive in fast-moving environments
- Clear communication and collaborative instincts

Bonus Points For

- Experience with cloud billing/cost tooling
- Interest in or exposure to LLMs or AI integrations
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases like DynamoDB

## Benefits

- Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage for you

- 401(k) plan

- Generous PTO: 13 accrued days, plus company shutdown December 24—January 1st

- Free lunch & dinner at the office

- Annual company-paid retreats

- Developmental bonuses: support for professional development opportunities tied to cloud and related fields

If you’re ready to grow fast, learn constantly, and make a measurable impact—join us.

## Compensation

$120,000—$200,000 USD

## About Pump.co

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pump.co is a financial operations platform that uses AI and group buying to automatically optimize and reduce businesses’ cloud computing costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; pre-seed from Y Combinator, seed round led by Focal)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA (also offices in Bengaluru and Delhi NCR, India)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Spandana Nakka (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily startups, mid-market, and enterprises with significant cloud spend (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Stop context-switching across 12 tools during an outage. Your AI SRE already has the full picture.” (from website)

## Products & Services
- **Pump Save**: Automated cloud cost reduction tool. Uses AI and group buying to negotiate discounted AWS/GCP/Azure commitments, rotating short-term commitments across customers. “Autopilot savings plans.” Available at no cost to the customer.
- **Pump View**: Cloud spend visibility and forecasting dashboard. Break down and forecast costs to always know where money is going.
- **Pump Secure**: Cloud security scanning against industry compliance frameworks. Provides step-by-step fixes and 24/7 monitoring.
- **Pump Intelligence (Coming Soon)**: Always-on AI SRE that consolidates incident response, cost optimization, and security insights to stop context-switching during outages.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $25M+ ARR reached in less than two years (as of late 2024); Total funding: $4.5M ($500K pre-seed from Y Combinator, $4M seed led by Focal)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2022 batch), Focal (lead seed investor), dozens of angel investors
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 250+ customers signed in 6 months, including 50+ YC companies.
  - Headcount grew 95.7% YoY to 66 employees (per LinkedIn).
  - Expanded operations to India in 2024 with a subsidiary; opened offices in Bengaluru and Delhi NCR.
  - Called “Costco of Cloud” by Forbes.
  - Average cloud savings of 60% for users.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Completely free product** – Pump makes money through the spread on group buying, not from customer subscriptions.
- **Group buying model** – Pools customers’ cloud commitments to shorten long-term contracts (3-year commitments shrink to ~1 month) while maximizing discounts.
- **AI automation** – No engineering effort required; the platform automatically finds and applies best pricing as usage spikes, dips, or grows.
- **Multi-cloud support** – Works across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- **Speed of integration** – Sync cloud accounts in under 2 minutes with read-only permissions.

## Strategic Focus
- **International expansion** – Recently launched in India, a high-demand market (second-highest traffic and signups).
- **Product expansion** – Adding incident response capabilities (“Pump Intelligence”) to become a full-stack cloud operations platform.
- **Scaling sales & engineering** – Actively hiring for Account Executives, Solutions Architects, and Backend Engineers in both US and India offices.
- **Maintaining growth trajectory** – Already at $25M+ ARR with a focus on acquiring more mid-market and enterprise customers.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment** – YC-backed startup scaling rapidly from 0 to $25M+ ARR in under 2 years; 95% headcount growth in the last year.
- **In-office culture** – All current roles require working from offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, or Delhi NCR. (Built In lists “In-Office” and “OnSite Workspace”).
- **Strong engineering culture** – Roles include Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Engineering Manager, and Solutions Architect. Technical team makes up a significant portion of the company.
- **Perks and culture** – Described as “pumped” and “Costco of the cloud”. Founders have multiple exits, and the team includes experienced operators from fintech and SaaS.
- **Global footprint** – Opportunity to work with teams spanning the US, India, Spain, and France.

## Sources
1. [pump.co](https://www.pump.co/) – Official website: product descriptions and value proposition.
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers) – Current job openings and company overview (ARR, founding team, etc.).
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/pump-co](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pump-co) – Y Combinator company page: founding year, funding, team size, launch posts.
4. [builtin.com/company/pumpco](https://builtin.com/company/pumpco/) – Careers page: office locations, perks, culture, employee count.
5. [linkedin.com/company/pumpcloud/life](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pumpcloud/life) – LinkedIn company page: employee count (66), headcount growth, department breakdown, funding details.

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