<h2>About Tofu</h2><div><br></div><div><strong>How do you distinguish between real and fake in an AI world?</strong></div><div>This question has crippled the recruiting industry overnight. Tofu is building one of the most important companies of our time and the layer to fix it.</div><div><br></div><div>AI has made it easier than ever to fake credentials, impersonate real people, and apply to jobs at scale using synthetic identities. More than 60% of remote applicants are fake, there were 75M detected deepfakes last year, and the number of state-sponsored groups hired by Fortune 500s grew 220%.</div><div><br></div><div>The hiring funnel has become the front door to the enterprise, and AI has cracked it wide open. It’s a $96 billion problem that needs to be solved.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>We’re changing that.</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Tofu is building a new standard for security in hiring.</div><div><br></div><div>And <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariagraciasantillanalinares/2025/12/16/job-applicant-fraud-is-rising-this-startup-is-using-ai-to-stop-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 123, 255);">we just raised $5M from Slow Ventures and Founder Collective to step on the gas.</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you want to help build the trust layer for the internet and redefine how identity works in the AI era, we’d love to talk.</div><div><br></div><h2>About the Role</h2><h2><br></h2><div>We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our core engineering team. You'll be a key contributor to both user-facing product launches as well as platform enhancements and stability -- working directly on the systems that power Tofu's fraud detection, deepfake analysis, and identity verification infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><h2>What You'll Do</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">Develop core product features to support Tofu's fraud detection pipelines, data processing, and retrieval at scale.</li><li class="">Design and implement backend APIs to facilitate data interactions between Tofu's detection models, scoring systems, and product surfaces.</li><li class="">Build and maintain data pipelines for efficient processing, analytics, and real-time fraud signal ingestion.</li><li class="">Collaborate with frontend engineers (React/JavaScript) to present fraud and identity data in a clear, actionable format for enterprise recruiting teams.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>What You'll Bring</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">Ability to own and manage concurrent initiatives, demonstrating effective judgment in prioritization and time management.</li><li class="">Driven, self-managed, capable of conceiving and implementing solutions on your own and with a team.</li><li class="">A strong desire to continuously improve and learn new technologies in a fast-paced environment.</li><li class="">Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication, attention to detail, and high-quality work.</li><li class="">Strong technical documentation ability to support the development process.</li><li class="">Effective communication and collaboration with designers, developers, and product managers.</li><li class="">Ability and interest in mentoring junior and mid-level engineers to foster their growth and development.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>Required Experience</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.</li><li class="">7+ years of professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages -- we primarily work in Python and JavaScript.</li><li class="">Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) using container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.</li><li class="">Expert proficiency in SQL.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>Preferred Experience</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">Experience with Elasticsearch or similar search and analytics engines.</li><li class="">Experience with various database architectures including relational (PostgreSQL) and others.</li><li class="">Experience managing and maintaining production infrastructure.</li><li class="">Experience building platform capabilities for internal teams.</li><li class="">Experience in fraud detection, identity verification, or security-adjacent domains.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>Why Tofu and this Role</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">You'll help build the trust layer for the internet -- one of the defining problems of the AI era.</li><li class="">You will join a team obsessed with building a generational company.</li><li class="">Early engineers have real ownership, real impact, and unlimited growth.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>Benefits & Perks</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">Competitive salary + meaningful equity.</li><li class="">Comprehensive health benefits.</li><li class="">3 weeks of vacation.</li><li class="">New laptop and gear to do your best work.</li><li class="">Tofu swag your friends will want to steal.</li></ul><div><br></div><h2>Working Location</h2><div><br></div><ul><li class="">This role is fully remote.</li></ul><div><br></div>
