About the Company: WAG is transforming how art and collectibles are valued, managed, and traded. Born from the merger of Winston Art Group (the largest independent appraisal and advisory firm in the U.and Artory (a pioneer in art tokenization), we combine deep industry expertise with technologies like AI and blockchain to modernize a $2.9 trillion general asset class. Now, we're building the next-generation platform to unlock liquidity, trust, and intelligence in the art market—and we're looking for exceptional engineers to help us do it. art, fintech AI,and blockchain. that values speed, clarity, and technical quality.

Remote-flexible culture with an HQ in NYC. Backend by top VCs and trusted by leading collectors, advisors, and institutions.

Staff Backend

Engineer to be the technical leader and architect of our backend systems. As one of the first engineering hires, you'll own the entire backend architecture—from foundational infrastructure and API design to AI-driven data pipelines and system scalability. tech lead role : you'll set technical direction, mentor future backend hires, and establish the engineering culture and standards that will scale with the company. Together, you'll co-own the backend vision—balancing immediate product needs with long-term scalability.

This isn't just about writing code—it's about making architectural decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and building systems that can evolve as we grow the engineering team. who ships production software with AI as a core tool, you'll thrive here.

Technical Leadership & Architecture: Own the entire backend architecture from day one—make the critical decisions on frameworks, databases, infrastructure, and patterns Define technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and deployment Lead system design for complex problems involving data ingestion, LLM orchestration,



and real-time analytics Mentor and guide future backend engineers as the team grows (you'll likely hire and lead 2-3 backend engineers in your first year) Evaluate and adopt new technologies Build and scale core backend systems to ingest, clean, and serve structured data at scale Design clean, performant APIs to power our client portal, data tools, and internal services Architect event-driven systems including CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and IaC (Terraform, AWS) Cross-Functional Collaboration: Co-own technical vision with Head of Engineering: to shape roadmap based on technical feasibility and effort Collaborate with data and frontend engineers S in Computer Science or equivalent Experience 7+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a technical lead, staff, or principal role at a high-growth startup or product company. Expert in Python with deep understanding of performance, concurrency, and design patterns. Strong database expertise (PostgreSQL or similar) including query optimization, schema design, and data modeling Deep knowledge of distributed systems including event-driven architectures, message queues, and async patterns (Celery, Kafka, SQS, etc.) Production experience with AWS (or GCP/Azure) including compute, storage, networking, and managed services Strong DevOps fundamentals: Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring/observability Data engineering fluency: ETL/ELT patterns, data lakes vs. warehouses, pipeline orchestration at early-stage startups (seed through Series B) Hands-on experience with LLM/AI integration in production systems—you've shipped features using OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models Prior tech lead or staff engineer experience ML/AI model deployment data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and analytics tools Domain knowledge in you'll be involved in hiring future backend engineers) Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Modality: Full-time, Contractor, Remote in Mexico, Colombia or Argentina Salary: $100,000 to $130,000 USD net annually Equity Remote in Mexico, Colombia or Argentina

📌 Staff Backend Engineer - Remote (Ciudad de México)
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