Backend Product Engineer

Tolan • San Francisco, CA

101d

About The Position

Tolan is an Embodied Companion: a cute, friendly AI alien that you talk with naturally, like a friend. They have unique preferences and personalities, and over time they form memories about you, your friendship, and your life. Tolan is built by an experienced team with a lot of history together. We previously founded Even, acquired for $300m in 2022. Our engineering team comes from places like Apple, Square, and character.ai. Our design and creative team has won Apple Design Awards and designed products like Facebook, Dropbox, and Poparazzi. We love to work hard, with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. We work together in-person in downtown SF.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of backend engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript or Python for rapid prototyping.
• Strong systems thinking to ensure great user experience.
• Experience building low latency systems at scale.
• Ability to work effectively in a small team.
• Experience integrating AI into work processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend systems that support Tolan.
• Work closely with frontend product engineering and design teams.
• Own a specific user-facing part of the product.
• Ship to production and engage with users to evaluate success metrics.
• Iterate on features based on user feedback.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level