Senior Backend Engineer

About Merciv

Merciv is an AI and data analytics startup dedicated to reshaping how businesses approach strategic intelligence. Our mission is to transform how organizations harness data, generate insights, and drive strategic decisions through cutting-edge AI pipelines and dynamic forecasting mechanisms.

We're building toward a world where every business decision is informed by the right data at the right time, combining AI capability with human judgement. Our technology:

• Connects disparate data sources into a single, coherent intelligence layer

• Augments human decision-making with autonomous AI analysis

• Surfaces insights and opportunities that traditional tools miss

• Forecasts outcomes and helps teams navigate uncertainty with real clarity

• Gives organizations the ability to shape their markets, not just react to them

We're building solutions that are robust and scalable but also genuinely intuitive, so that teams across an organization can actually use them, not just the data team. We've raised $14M in seed funding, built our team around a strong engineering culture, and are launching publicly after nearly two years in stealth mode.

We're building an agentic AI platform that's changing how enterprises work with data. Merciv connects an organization's entire data landscape with external sources - social media trends, industry reports, consumer behavior signals - to surface insights and automate workflows that used to take analysts weeks.

We care a lot about making powerful tools feel simple. Every feature should be intuitive, every component interactive. We want users to open Merciv and immediately feel like they can do more than they could before.

Our lean, agile team thrives on innovation and autonomy. We're small enough that everyone has real ownership. We use a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) model - you'll own major product features from conception to launch, not just contribute to them. You'll wear multiple hats, and that's by design.

Our work environment thrives on creativity and cutting-edge technology, built for those eager to shape the future of human-AI collaboration. If you’re excited about being a part of a fast-paced, innovative startup culture and making a significant impact on client business, Merciv is the place for you. Join us as we expand the horizons of retail intelligence and deliver unparalleled value to our clients.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build the core systems that power Merciv’s agentic infrastructure. You’ll architect services that process massive volumes of enterprise data in real-time, build the pipelines that feed our AI engines, and ensure our platform scales reliably for Fortune 500 clients who depend on it daily.

This is a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) role. You’ll own major platform features from architecture to deployment, working closely with ML engineers, product, and our enterprise customers.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and scale backend services using Go and Python that power autonomous retail intelligence for enterprise clients

• Architect data ingestion and processing pipelines that handle millions of data points across internal and external sources

• Build and maintain APIs that serve our agentic AI platform, supporting real-time decision-making at enterprise scale

• Collaborate with ML/AI engineers to integrate predictive and prescriptive models into production workflows

• Own system reliability (design for fault tolerance, observability, and performance under high-throughput conditions)

• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the long-term trajectory of our platform

• Mentor junior engineers and establish backend engineering best practices as we scale

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building systems at enterprise scale

• Deep proficiency in Go and/or Python, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and microservices architecture

• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases; comfortable with data processing at scale

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.

• Strong understanding of system design principles (you can architect solutions that balance performance, scalability, and maintainability)

• Passionate about clean, well-tested, maintainable code

• You thrive in fast-paced environments and are energized by hard, ambiguous problems

Bonus

• Experience with graph and/or vector databases

• Familiarity with RAG architectures and the broader GenAI landscape

• Experience with real-time data processing and streaming technologies

• Understanding of ML/AI concepts, particularly in forecasting and NLP
  

Why Merciv

• Real enterprise impact: our platform drives 8-figure improvements in gross margins for the world’s largest retailers

• Cutting-edge technical challenges at the intersection of agentic AI, distributed systems, and enterprise data orchestration

• Small team, massive surface area. You’ll own major features from conception to production

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k, home office stipend, flexible PTO)

• A culture that values craft, intellectual honesty, and genuine human connection

Merciv is building the future of autonomous commerce. We're committed to assembling a diverse team of builders who want to revolutionize how the world does business.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.