Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future.
Join us for the ride!
About the Role
We’re seeking a seasoned backend engineer to help architect and build core infrastructure. You’ll be part of a small, highly technical team working on novel approaches to secure systems — with an emphasis on cryptography, automation, and AI-powered analysis. This is a high-impact role where thoughtful design, clean abstractions, and system reliability matter deeply.
Day to Day
- Build and maintain high-performance backend services to ingest telemetry, orchestrate analysis, and support remediation workflows
- Design internal APIs and gRPC/REST interfaces for coordination between distributed agents, front-end systems, and external integrations
- Model and persist system state, cryptographic metadata, and remediation context using scalable storage and indexing strategies
- Collaborate closely with AI engineers on inference infrastructure and LLM integration patterns
- Define service-level objectives (SLOs), instrument observability metrics, and ensure fault tolerance under edge conditions
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, security reviews, and deployment automation for fast, safe iteration
- Engage in design discussions across the stack to help shape foundational architecture decisions
What You Bring to the Table
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong system design and coding fundamentals
- Deep fluency in modern backend development (e.g., TypeScript with Node.js/NestJS, or Go/Python if appropriate)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API ergonomics, and architectural tradeoffs
- Familiarity with authentication protocols, cryptographic primitives, and secure data handling practices
- Experience with event-driven architecture, stream processing, or telemetry ingestion pipelines
- Proficiency in designing and evolving data models and working with document or time-series databases
- A bias toward clean abstractions, thoughtful naming, and maintainability under iteration pressure
- Ability to thrive in high-trust, ambiguity-rich environments with strong ownership and product sensibility
Extra Credit
- Prior work in infosec, vulnerability management, or cryptographic systems
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript frameworks like NestJS or tRPC
- Familiarity with large language models, inference APIs, and agent execution frameworks
- Background in devops, platform reliability, or security tooling
- Contributions to open-source backend projects or developer tooling
As part of Point Wild, you will:
Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe.
See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day.
Accelerate your career. As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you.
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild.
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Point Wild Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
250 Northern Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02210
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