Job Description

Ionworks is looking for a founding backend/systems engineer to own big pieces of our backend and help us scale from a few early customers to broader industry use. Work includes designing APIs and data models for simulation and optimization workflows, performance and reliability work across the stack, job orchestration for running and tracking simulations, and observability. The stack includes FastAPI, Python, Supabase/Postgres, and distributed compute for simulations. We value 'vibe engineering' style, using LLMs and coding agents as accelerators while maintaining code quality and architecture.