Senior Software Engineer - Backend

readyon.aiSan Francisco, CA
Onsite

About The Position

ReadyOn is an AI-native labor operating system designed to address the inefficiencies in managing frontline labor spend. Unlike traditional software, ReadyOn uses AI agents for real-time labor optimization, similar to how ridesharing platforms match drivers and riders. The platform's core decision layer is built with AI from the ground up, continuously optimizing for cost, compliance, and worker satisfaction. The company has achieved product-market fit with significant customers and measurable ROI. This role involves sharpening, extending, and scaling the real-time labor insights across numerous sites and users, focusing on building the core decision layer that orchestrates shifts, locations, and workers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with production systems.
  • Ability to dive into ambiguity, excel in hands-on, high-impact environments, and drive solutions without waiting for perfect specs.
  • Care about clean system design, scalability, and architectural elegance and aren’t afraid to rethink the usual approaches.
  • Enjoy close collaboration with product, design, and AI research teams to deliver new experiences customers use.
  • Focus on business outcomes, not just technical output, and love finding solutions to real problems.
  • Fluent in TypeScript and NestJS (or other Node.js frameworks) and know how to design decoupled services and robust enterprise interfaces.
  • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, migration management, and handling concurrency in large-scale environments.

Nice To Haves

  • GraphQL experience is a major plus.
  • Hands-on experience with conflict resolution in collaborative systems, graph processing, feature stores, or real-time coordination tools.

Responsibilities

  • Sharpening, extending, and scaling real-time labor insights across thousands of sites and users.
  • Building the core decision layer that orchestrates how thousands of shifts, locations, and workers come together every day.
  • Rolling up sleeves across core engineering, AI, and platform teams to get things built.
  • Launching, learning, and continuously making systems smarter in production.
  • Collaborating closely with product, design, and AI research teams to deliver new experiences customers use.
  • Focusing on business outcomes and finding solutions to real problems.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary range.
  • Comprehensive benefits.
  • Bonuses.
  • Commissions.
  • Meaningful equity stake.
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