Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Integrations)

Read AI, Inc.•Seattle, WA

9d•$180,000 - $210,000

About The Position

The Integrations team owns the systems that connect Read AI to the outside world — from OAuth2 connections and credential management, to event-driven pipelines that pull data in from platforms like Google, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and Salesforce, to services that push Read AI data back out. This is an event-driven architecture built on Kafka and SQS, supporting both foundational infrastructure used across the company and product-facing integration features. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll help design new integrations, improve the scalability and reliability of existing systems, and contribute to how the team standardizes integration patterns going forward — all while the user base grows quickly and the demands on these systems increase.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time in backend/distributed systems
Strong experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, or similar)
Strong API design skills, particularly for services operating in distributed, event-driven systems
Familiarity with the third-party API integration problem domain (OAuth2, webhooks, rate limits)
Strong experience in at least one backend language (Python, Java, or similar), with the willingness and ability to ramp up in Python
Comfort navigating and improving an established, production codebase
Strong system design skills

Responsibilities

Design and build integrations
Contribute to system design for new third-party integrations, from OAuth2 connection through data sync
Ship integration features end-to-end, working across push and pull data flows
Help standardize and generalize integration patterns to make future integrations faster to build
Design clean, well-structured APIs to support integration features and platform services
Improve scalability and reliability
Work within the team's event-driven infrastructure (Kafka, SQS, CDC streaming, webhook processing) to improve reliability as usage scales
Come up to speed on the current architecture and help evolve it to handle rapid growth
Build visibility into system health
Build dashboards and tooling that give engineering and product teams visibility into the health and success of integration systems and features
Collaborate with the team
Bring senior-level experience and judgment to technical discussions and design decisions
Work closely with teammates who know the current systems deeply, while helping push them forward