Backend Engineer - AI Products

About iCOUNTER

iCOUNTER is building the future of cybersecurity.

Modern enterprises rely on thousands of third parties, suppliers, SaaS providers, contractors, and digital partners. At the same time, attackers have shifted their focus to these trusted relationships. Today, nearly half of reported breaches involve a third party, making the extended enterprise one of the largest attack surfaces in cybersecurity.

iCOUNTER is the first Risk Intelligence company built to help organizations identify, determine, and counter threats across their ecosystem. Our AI-native platform makes a Risk Determination at the point of intelligence collection, helping organizations understand what is real, what is relevant, and what requires action.

At the center of our platform is CTOS, the Counter Threat Operating System. CTOS continuously monitors adversary activity, credential exposure, targeting behavior, and ecosystem risk across third and fourth parties. It then routes intelligence into action through automated workflows and managed operations.

If you want to help define the next era of cybersecurity and build technology that helps organizations stop monitoring threats and start countering them, we'dlove to meet you.

Position Overview

Were looking for a backend engineer to build the services and infrastructure powering our AI products. Youll design APIs, orchestrate AI/LLM integrations, and ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, and fast.

This is a hybrid role requiring at least 3 days in office.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Integrate and orchestrate AI/LLM providers and models API integrations, prompt pipelines, retrieval, and vector search.
• Build data pipelines and manage storage, including vector databases and search infrastructure.
• Ensure performance, scalability, observability, and reliability of AI-driven systems.
• Handle streaming responses, rate limiting, caching, and cost optimization for model usage.
• Collaborate with frontend and ML teams; participate in code reviews and architecture decisions.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional backend development experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Go, or Java)
• Hands-on experience building AI/ML-powered systems (LLM API integration, RAG pipelines, model serving, or similar)
• Experience designing and building REST APIs (and/or streaming/WebSocket APIs)
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling
• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Legally authorized to work in Canada and able to commute to Vancouver for hybrid work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Elasticsearch, pgvector, Weaviate) and semantic search
• Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, and prompt engineering
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architecture
• Experience managing LLM cost, latency, and observability in production

Why Join iCOUNTER

This is a rare opportunity to help define a new cybersecurity category while working alongside industry pioneers, experienced operators, and world-class investors. You will have a direct impact on company strategy, market leadership, and the future of how organizations counter threats across their extended enterprise.

If you are energized by ambiguity, inspired by innovation, and excited to build something category-defining, we want to hear from you.

Completion of a Background Check is required for employment at iCOUNTER

iCOUNTER is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. iCOUNTERprovides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

Accommodation: If you need accommodations, reach out to [email protected].