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Senior Backend Engineer, Detection

Intuition Machines specializes in deep learning and visual domain ML at scale, providing privacy-preserving AI/ML platforms and services like the hCaptcha security suite to protect hundreds of millions of users globally.

Intuition Machines

Employee count: 51-200

Argentina only

Intuition Machines security products are used at scale by category leaders in every industry. You are probably familiar with our best-known product, the hCaptcha security suite.

Our approach is simple: high agency, small teams, and rapid iteration. AI/ML is at the core of our products. We build our systems for speed, with a team distributed around the world.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Detection team, you'll develop, support, and maintain the core hCaptcha application tools and services that detect and verify user events. You'll work closely with Security and Machine Learning engineers to continuously build cutting-edge features that improve hCaptcha's capabilities by leveraging languages such as JavaScript and or Go to solve problems that impact users on a global scale.

You'll practice DevSecOps, handling operations around your code including security implementations, monitoring, automation, and production systems. Our customer-focused organization means you'll interact directly with enterprise customers and startups when needed, alongside our product, customer success, and sales teams.


What will you do:

  • Collaborate with team members and domain experts to execute on solutions that directly impact the ability to detect and mitigate fraud and automation.
  • Design and implement features that aim for low-latency, high-availability, transparent performance insights.
  • Write clearly structured, maintainable, well-documented, and tested code that meets open-source quality standards.
  • Support engineering excellence through code reviews, test automation, and on-call participation.


What you will learn:

  • Experience working with systems that serve hundreds of millions of daily users.
  • Security and Machine Learning expertise through product development and company knowledge sharing.
  • Cutting-edge technology to be leveraged in solutions to combat the ever evolving cybersecurity landscape.


What we are looking for:

  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering roles.
  • Proven experience building scalable solutions with JavaScript and/or Go.
  • Expertise in Web APIs, HTTP, SSL, and database management.
  • Strong background with serverless and containerization architectures.
  • Proficiency in network protocols and distributed systems.


Nice to Have:

  • Production experience with Python, Rust, or C++.
  • Knowledge of security frameworks (OWASP, CISA), attack vectors, botnets, etc.
  • Experience working across infrastructure such as developing CI/CD pipelines, metrics-driven deployments, managing system resources, etc.


What we offer:

  • Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
  • An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
  • Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
  • High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.
  • Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of our team. Join us as we transform cyber security, user privacy, and machine learning online!

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About Intuition Machines

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At Intuition Machines, we're dedicated to pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve complex real-world problems. Since our inception in 2017, we've grown into a global team, with colleagues in over 38 countries, all focused on a singular mission: making AI accessible, private, and secure. Our journey began with foundational AI/ML research, and this spirit of innovation continues to drive us. We believe in the power of open science and regularly contribute to the academic community, publishing our work and supporting other research groups by providing access to our advanced AI/ML platforms.

Our core focus is on developing privacy-preserving AI/ML platforms that don't compromise on accuracy or usability. We're proud that our systems, including our flagship product hCaptcha, serve and protect hundreds of millions of people across the globe every day. hCaptcha is a testament to our commitment to security and user privacy, offering a robust alternative that safeguards online services from sophisticated threats while respecting user data. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, providing them with machine learning products and services at scale, with a particular emphasis on meta-learning and the visual domain. We operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, embracing rapid iteration and a strong commercial focus to ensure our scientific breakthroughs translate into real-world impact. We're always looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our mission as we continue to transform cybersecurity, user privacy, and machine learning online.

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Flexible working hours

Provides flexible working hours.

Paid vacation

Offers paid time off for employees.

Flat organization

Flat organizational structure with direct interaction with customer teams.

Learning and development

Mentoring and support in learning advanced ML, computer vision, and cybersecurity methods.

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