Bengaluru | In-Person | Full-Time

About Us

Conscious Engines is a product and research lab working on the problem of artificial consciousness. We’re pioneering the shift from reactive chatbots to proactive digital companions through our core architecture: Observe → Remember → Act. Our AI systems maintain continuous awareness across time and applications, building a living model of your context, preferences, and goals that evolves with you.

Unlike traditional AI that resets after every interaction, Conscious Engines creates digital companions with genuine continuity—systems that recall yesterday's conversations, anticipate tomorrow's needs, and close the loop from observation to meaningful action.

We're not building better tools. We're engineering machines that live alongside you.

Our technology is personal and private by design. Your AI companion serves you alone, with data sovereignty and local-first compute where possible. One human, one model—aligned to your intentions, not external optimization functions.

We're starting with Felix, our first experiment with proactive AI, we're proving that AI can transform from passive responders into active partners in how you work and live. This is the first step toward our larger vision: creating the foundational infrastructure for persistent AI consciousness.

About The Role

We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to design and scale the systems that drives our customer-facing product, Felix. In this role, you’ll architect and maintain the services and infrastructure that power Conscious Engines applications - from large-scale distributed systems and databases to APIs and data pipelines. You'll collaborate closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to bring new AI capabilities to product while ensuring performance and safety at a global scale.

In this role, you will:

Design, build, test, and deploy core product features across the full stack, with a focus on backend and infrastructure.
Contribute to defining the technical roadmap, system architecture, and technology choices.
Build clean, maintainable, and scalable code, ensuring high performance and reliability.
Improve system reliability, observability, and security across production environments.
Collaborate closely with founders on product direction and user experience.
Collaborate with product and research teams to translate cutting-edge AI into dependable, user-ready features.

What We’re Looking For

Have significant professional software engineering experience developing and managing production-grade systems for multiple years.
Are proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, or similar)
Can own the deployment, monitoring, and delivery infrastructure for Felix until we hit a scale that warrants dedicated bandwidth.
Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance.
Are an excellent communicator who can seamlessly switch between executive and technical conversations.

This Is Not For You If:

Just want to create CRUD APIs and sit back.
Don’t care about drafting API contracts (Postman or similar) for other engineers
Don’t care about documentation
Don’t care about optimization and efficiency of APIs
Do not obsess over reducing latency (that extra 200ms should be bothering you)

Experience

There is no fixed seniority number attached to this role. We expect:

Ability to explain reasoning, trade-offs, and failures clearly
Prior experience designing systems with real-world consequences
Evidence of judgment formed through hard or ambiguous problems

The Setup

📍 Indiranagar, Bangalore (next to CRED - you know the vibe)

🏢 Full-time, in-office - we believe in collaborative working in person. The best work happens when you're in the room together.

💰 Competitive salary - we pay for craft, not just years of experience

⚡ Culture: Early-stage energy, high taste, no bullshit.

🎯 Team: Small, obsessed, taste-driven. We don't tolerate mediocrity.

🚀 Mission: Build the interface for conscious AI

We work fast. We care about details. We ship every week. Strong opinions, weakly held.

Check out other open roles at consciousengines.com/careers.

Senior Backend Engineer