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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$300k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Amari: AI agents automating document-heavy workflows for the logistics industry.
4+ YOE4–6 years backend software engineering in a high-growth startup; ownership of backend systems; strong architectural judgment; in-person SF collaboration.
Inflection AI: Develops human-centered personal AI and large language models.
10+ YOESenior backend engineer with 10+ years in production cloud systems; strong Python, PostgreSQL, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure); Kubernetes; LLM patterns; ownership and reliability.
Mochi Health: Provides telehealth weight management and prescription medication services.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience, strong distributed systems and data modeling skills, experience owning infrastructure (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS), proficiency with TypeScript/Node.js, excellent communication.
TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Codex 5.3, Claude Opus 4.6
Orion Sleep: Manufacturer of AI-powered smart mattress covers for sleep optimization.
Experience designing APIs, scaling backend systems from 0-1, and building infrastructure to support product features; strong backend engineering and system-architecture skills.
Collective Health: Cloud platform for managing employer-sponsored health benefits.
10+ YOE10+ years backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Cloud, microservices and integration platform experience (Mulesoft), AI tooling familiarity, cloud (AWS/GCP), SQL/PostgreSQL, system development, and strong communication and leadership skills.
AtlassianNASDAQ: TEAM: Develops software for team collaboration and project management.
Expert backend engineering to design and lead an AI proxy platform, ensure high availability, cost-efficiency, security integration, and mentor engineering teams.
Judgment Labs: Infrastructure for monitoring and optimizing autonomous AI agents.
6+ YOE6+ years building high-throughput backend systems; strong API design, data modeling, distributed systems experience; hands-on with ClickHouse/Presto; EM and platform collaboration skills.
Waystation: AI-native procurement platform for consumer packaged goods.
6+ YOERequires 6+ years of production software experience, 2+ years at a seed-to-Series B startup, backend/data expertise, live schema migrations, queues, APIs, and strong communication.
TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Claude Code
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
6+ YOE6+ years backend experience; Python or Go; other languages (Ruby/Node.js) welcome; US citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP; onsite five days a week.
YieldNest: Liquid restaking protocol for risk-adjusted DeFi yields.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development in Python; async programming; deep PostgreSQL; multi-tenant data isolation; Redis; OpenTelemetry; AWS; strong system design and collaboration.
Matternet: Develops autonomous drone networks for urban package delivery.
6+ YOE6+ years building and operating production backend systems; strong Node.js/TypeScript skills, API design (GraphQL/REST), relational databases, cloud, containers, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and security.
Madrid or Paris or Seattle or London or Berlin or San Francisco or New York City or Sydney or Mexico City
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Aircall: Cloud-based business phone system and customer communication platform.
6+ YOE6+ years backend development with a typed language (TypeScript preferred), production AWS experience, infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation or Terraform), security-first mindset, serverless experience, GraphQL a plus, on-call rotation and mentoring experience.
Commure: AI-powered software platform for healthcare workflow and administrative automation.
Professional software development experience; strong backend skills with Python and web frameworks; experience with containers and cloud (Docker, Kubernetes); production systems, alerting, metrics, and SRE practices; leadership and customer-facing experience.
Alpaca Health: Enabling clinicians to launch and scale independent autism care clinics.
Senior backend engineer with strong system-design and ownership; builds integrations, billing/payments, data pipelines, and AI/LLM infrastructure. Experience in operationally complex domains (healthcare, fintech, insurance) or early-stage startups preferred.
Lightning AI: Unified platform to build, train, and deploy AI models.
Significant experience building and operating production backend systems with Go or Python, deep Kubernetes or Slurm knowledge, distributed systems, networking, observability, CI/CD, and production incident response.
Rippling: Unified platform managing workforce HR, IT, and finance operations
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience; experience with distributed systems, distributed processing engines, big data technologies, mentoring developers, and building data platforms.
Python, MongoDB, CDC, Kafka, Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink, Rippling Query Language (RQL), Microsoft 365
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
8+ YOEBS or equivalent and 8+ years software engineering experience; strong Go, Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience; distributed-systems and production operations skills.