Staff Backend Engineer

Sequen AI

6h • $230,000 - $280,000

About The Position

This role involves building and scaling platform components to support Sequen AI's rapid growth. The Staff Backend Engineer will design and architect composable platform components that deliver value across various use cases. They will collaborate with product teams to understand needs and accelerate feature delivery, making build vs. buy decisions and implementing third-party solutions when impactful. The position also includes setting technical direction and vision for product and platform features, and partnering with research to prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems
• Firm grasp of Go
• Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures
• Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1
• Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results
• Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions
• Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI ranking
• Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
• Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience

Nice To Haves

• Have firm grasp of Python
• Know their way around kubectl and terraform
• Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations
• Have experience with REST APIs
• Have experience with React and Frontend frameworks

Responsibilities

• Build and scale platform components to handle Sequen’s rapid growth
• Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases
• Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery
• Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful
• Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features
• Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs

Benefits

• High-autonomy IC role shaping backend architecture and platform evolution
• The opportunity to build mission-critical systems powering advanced ML experiences
• Very competitive salary: 230k-280k + equity
• Health insurance
• unlimited time off
• awesome team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior