Senior Software Engineer Backend with AI background

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Posted 30 days ago | Updated 30 days ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

startup
startups
typescript
node.js
rest api
restapi
ci/cd
github
graphql
ai
agent
artificial intelligence

Job Details

Position: Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - FTE Direct Hire
San Francisco, CA

Role Responsibilities:

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Client, you'll architect and scale the enterprise data migration platform that enables companies to seamlessly transfer customer data between systems. You'll build robust infrastructure for secure authentication, automated data extraction, and intelligent transformation workflows, creating reliable solutions that work across platforms with or without APIs. This role requires deep technical expertise as you design the systems powering frictionless enterprise migrations and customer onboarding.

Core Platform Development:

  • Design and maintain scalable, secure APIs that power our suite of platform-specific SDKs

  • Implement networking features including traffic inspection, protocol-level request manipulation, and proxy systems

  • Build and maintain robust data pipelines and infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or similar

  • Contribute to authentication protocol implementation and security infrastructure

  • Develop and maintain vendor integrations across authentication, database, and DevOps tools

Enterprise-First Mentality:

  • Manage API versioning and backwards compatibility

  • Support customer integration efforts and address technical challenges

  • Collaborate with product and frontend teams to improve customer experience

MUST HAVES:

  • Should be Senior, Staff, or Tech Lead level
  • CS degree from a top university
  • 5 - 8 years of experience building backend systems for highly complex platforms and SDKs
  • Expert proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js for backend systems and knowledge of security best practices
  • Experience building and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or similar
  • Strong experience with REST API design
  • CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions
  • Individually owned features end-to-end from conception through deployment and maintenance
  • Experience working at an early-stage startup
  • Previously architected and scaled enterprise level platforms at Tier 1 companies like Palantir and Databricks or competitive Series A-C startups
Plusses:
  • Ex-founder/CTO or early technical lead at high-growth early-stage tech startup
  • Previous experience at AI/Agent related startups
  • GraphQL experience
  • Networking protocols (HTTP, TCP, TLS) experience
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