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# Member of Technical Staff - Designer at Internet Backyard

- **Company:** Internet Backyard
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/internet-backyard/am9icG9zdDq5_ipUZ1y9dDIoSBBaewHl

## Job description

## About Internet Backyard

Internet Backyard is building the financial infrastructure that connects modern compute: data centers, neoclouds, colocations, and the energy that powers them. Billing, payment automation, and financial operations: we own all of it for compute providers. We’re building the financial backbone of the entire data infrastructure industry. We’re early. Small team. Moving fast. We build in person. Well-funded.

## What You’ll Do

You'll build and ship frontend features. End to end. Polished. You work at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering. You’ll take a rough idea and make it something real and ship it. The look, feel, and how it works. It’s all yours. You have taste, understand your craft and have some engineering chops. What you don’t know, you figure out.

## What We’re Looking For

- Exceptional early-career builders are encouraged to apply. We count smarts, not years.
- You use AI tools as part of your actual workflow. Prototyping, generating UI variations, writing frontend code. A real speed multiplier.
- You know the difference between a clean component and a messy one.
- Your portfolio does the talking.
- You care about the craft. Not just how it looks, but how it works, how it's built, and whether you'd ship it yourself.
- You understand why the financial infrastructure behind compute matters and you want to be part of building it.

## How We Work

No layers, no handoffs, no hiding behind process. Everyone is close to the work and expected to use good judgment. Agency and autonomy are yours to lose. Be kind. We don't do jerks.

## Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: $160,000-$180,000 USD Equity: 0.5-1.5% Healthcare, vision, dental, monthly stipend, private chef, 401(k), and whatever else you need to help build a generational company.

## About Internet Backyard

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Internet Backyard builds the financial backbone for the global compute economy by automating quoting, billing, payments, and financial workflows for data center and GPU cloud providers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Mai Trinh (CEO) and Gabriel Ravacci (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial operations for AI infrastructure; Software as a Service (SaaS) focused on compute providers (data centers, GPU clouds, neoclouds).
- **Target customers**: B2B – data center operators, GPU cloud providers, managed AI infrastructure companies. Ultimately also serving tenants (AI companies) and capital providers (banks, insurers).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building the financial backbone for the global compute economy" – turning physical compute capacity into a tradeable, financeable asset.

## Products & Services
- **Compute Finance Platform**: A SaaS platform that standardizes quoting, billing, metering, payments, and financial workflows for compute providers. It unifies billing with power usage (matching “what was used” with “what was paid”) and enables compute to be reserved, hedged, insured, and financed like any other asset.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $4.5 million (Pre-Seed round, December 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor: Basis Set Ventures. Total of 8 investors in the pre-seed round.
- **Growth Signals**: Early-stage startup with 7–9 employees as of mid-2026. Opened a fellowship program (Basis Set x Internet Backyard AI Fellowship) and has 3 active job postings (Technical Product Manager, Member of Technical Staff – Full Stack, Member of Technical Staff – Data Engineer). Headcount was growing but showed a slight dip (-11.1% monthly) likely due to early team churn. Raised $4.5M in pre-seed, signaling strong investor confidence in the problem space.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category creation**: Tackling the $50B billing challenge for data centers with a unified financial infrastructure, moving the industry away from spreadsheets and manual reconciliation.
- **Standardized abstractions**: Turning heterogeneous racks, regions, SKUs, and workloads into consistent, tradeable units – enabling a new asset class for compute.
- **Integrated data flywheel**: Metering, billing, contracts, risk, and financing live on the same rails, giving providers and tenants a single source of truth and enabling sophisticated commercial terms and risk management.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening the platform’s integrations with data centers and GPU clouds, scaling the team (especially technical roles), and proving the unit economics for the compute finance layer.
- **Direction for growth**: Expand from quoting/billing into financing, hedging, and insurance for compute capacity. Establish Internet Backyard as the standard financial infrastructure for the AI compute market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as "intense" and "seriously hard" – the team values ownership, speed, and building systems that will outlive them. The CEO has stated they are "building the next asset class" and that conventional work-life balance may not fit, but the upside is the chance to shape the financial infrastructure of AI from the earliest days.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Based on Built In, the company operates from physical offices (San Francisco and Toronto/Locations in Canada). The website and LinkedIn suggest a mix of in-office and remote, with a clear emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Early-stage equity; direct exposure to founders and Basis Set Ventures; the opportunity to work across finance, infrastructure, and AI. The team is small (less than 10 people) so engineers will have massive ownership and cross-functional impact.

## Sources
1. [Internet Backyard Website](https://internetbackyard.com/)
2. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/internet-backyard)
3. [LinkedIn Culture Post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/internet-backyard_internet-backyard-careers-activity-7477467805467033600-Aj8h)
4. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/internet-backyard)
5. [Gem Careers Page](https://jobs.gem.com/internet-backyard)
6. [Wellfound (Apollo) Profile](https://wellfound.com/company/internet-backyard) (implied from search results)

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