Senior Backend Engineer

We are

Lema AI is a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS company on a mission to ensure modern businesses never fail because of a third-party incident. We’re reimagining the stagnant Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and cyber resilience space by moving companies from reactive compliance to proactive, real-time risk prevention powered by advanced AI.

Already trusted by industry-leading enterprises, Lema is entering a phase of hypergrowth. We’re tripling our team as we build a category-defining platform, guided by a culture of radical ownership, transparency, and fast, cross-functional execution. If you thrive in high-context, high-impact environments, you’ll feel at home here.

More about Lema:

• Lema.ai website 
• Business Insider - Cybersecurity startup Lema has come out of stealth to raise $24 million
• Team8 - Why We Invested In Lema

About the TPRM market:

• McKinsey - nearly one-third of recent cyber breaches originated from third parties
• Hitch Partners - Third-party risk dominates security priorities, with AI-enhanced attacks and cloud misconfigurations completing the top three concerns.

About The Role

We’re looking for a a senior backend engineer with 6+ years of experience, playing a key role in building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up. As part of the company’s early engineering team, you’ll help shape both the product and the engineering culture, own backend architecture, lead end-to-end feature development, and drive technical excellence while collaborating closely with product, design, and infrastructure in a fast-growing environment.

What You’ll Do

• Be one of our first 10 engineers, shaping both our product and our engineering culture.
• Define and evolve the backend architecture, infrastructure and development best practices for a fast-growing team.
• Own features end-to-end - from concept and design discussions to implementation, deployment and observability.
• Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines.
• Continuously improve developer workflows - identify friction, integrate new tools, automate repetitive tasks and champion engineering excellence.
• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers: drive planning, break down work, ensure quality delivery and help hire exceptional talent.
• Collaborate with experienced peers - engineers, PMs and designers - who’ve built large-scale systems at top-tier companies.
• Here are some of the technologies we work with: Golang, Python, Protobuf, React, Typescript, Kafka, Postgresql, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS

Requirements

What You Bring

• A seasoned backend engineer (6+ years) who thrives on building impactful, user-centric products from the ground up.
• Experienced in designing and scaling modern microservices architectures (both BE and FE integration).
• Capable of taking complex features from design to deployment, owning every stage of the backend lifecycle - while guiding others to do the same.
• Pragmatic about code quality: confident refactoring, simplifying and deleting code when needed.
• Comfortable leading code reviews, defining engineering standards and collaborating across product, design and infrastructure.

Why Join Lema AI

• Impact: Build a category-defining platform that safeguards how modern businesses operate.
• Ownership: Join a culture that gives you full context, autonomy, and trust to drive outcomes.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary, equity package, and additional perks
• Velocity: Work with exceptional peers in a high-energy, low-bureaucracy environment.
• Growth: Shape a company that’s scaling rapidly, backed by Tier 1 investors and visionary customers.