Back-End Engineer | Late-Stage AI Portfolio Company

Peak Xv Partners
Peak Xv Partners

Software Engineering, Data Science · Full-time

Singapore

Posted on Sep 4, 2026

One of our late-stage AI portfolio companies is building a neural, AI-native search API designed for AI agents rather than human end-users, and they are looking to hire a Back-end Engineer to join their growing engineering hub in Singapore.

Desired Experience

  • You have experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems
  • You can build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day
  • You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
  • You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
  • Plus: Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)

Example Projects

  • Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
  • Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
  • Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms

Please apply to this role directly on LinkedIn. This is the only way to be considered for this role. Please do not DM any of our stakeholders about this position.