Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Skills

About the Role

You will design and operate the backend systems that turn cutting-edge AI capabilities into dependable product experiences. You'll build secure, multi-tenant services, orchestrate interactions with LLMs and agentic tools, and help define the backend architecture. You'll work with product, frontend and design partners to ship features end-to-end and own the services you build, including on-call.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production web applications or SaaS products
• Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products leveraging PWA technologies
• Track record of shipping highly intuitive products with attention to detail
• Strong Python skills and experience with a modern web framework (FastAPI or Flask)
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (Postgres)
• Understanding of API design, authentication/authorization, background job patterns, and error handling
• Experience building for cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Comfort operating production services with logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and on-call
• Must be authorized to work in India; visa sponsorship not available

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver reliable features quickly
• Design and own backend services and APIs powering web applications, workflows, and integrations
• Model and manage data in Postgres and related data stores
• Build secure, multi-tenant, permissions-aware systems with auditing
• Implement backend features and workflows that use LLMs and agentic tools
• Define clear API contracts with frontend, product, and design partners
• Add logging, metrics, and tracing for observable services
• Improve performance and scalability by profiling bottlenecks and tuning queries
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and on-call rotation