Founding Backend Engineer

About Optify

Optify builds advanced video-analytics and agentic systems for global manufacturing floors — helping the world’s largest factories (including luxury goods manufacturers and major auto companies) optimize worker performance and operational efficiency.

We’re not iterating on existing tech — we’re building things that didn’t exist before.

• Nearly $1M ARR (≈$900k+).
• Raising Series A internally targeted for Feb–Mar.
• Working directly with top global manufacturers (e.g., Louis Vuitton’s manufacturing partners).
• Recent breakthroughs:
• Few-shot models: onboarding time dropped from 6 weeks → 2 hours.
• Automated performance-analysis agents replacing 4+ human analysts at client factories.

If you want to work on real optimization problems with real-world constraints — cheap cameras, high-volume data, and hard infra bottlenecks — this is it.

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Role: Founding Backend Engineer

You will be engineer #3 alongside our IIT Bombay founding engineer and CTO.

Expect extremely high technical ownership, work on novel infrastructure problems, and build backend systems that can handle massive video-stream concurrency under cost-constrained hardware.

This is not normal backend work.

It is deep optimization, infra orchestration, and real-time systems.

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What You’ll Do

• Build and optimize backend systems that orchestrate concurrent video streams at scale.
• Work directly with the CTO on hard infra and systems-design problems.
• Contribute to proprietary backend architecture powering Optify’s AI/agent stack.
• Improve system efficiency, reduce deployment costs, and push hardware limits.
• Collaborate on rapid R&D cycles for new AI + CV features.
• Work as a true founding engineer: high agency, zero bureaucracy, huge impact.