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Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Careers Readyon
San FranciscoOn-site7mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
Transform How Frontline Work Runs
Who's Building It
- Reza – Engineering leader who scaled enterprise systems at Google, Yahoo, and AT&T
- Dominic – Operator who optimized labor-intensive operations in 21 countries
- Mohammad – Stanford professor and leading expert in algorithmic market design
Hands-On Builders Leading AI Innovation
You’ll Thrive in This Role If You
- Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with production systems.
- 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.
- Are fluent in TypeScript and NestJS (or other Node.js frameworks) and know how to design decoupled services and robust enterprise interfaces; GraphQL experience is a major plus.
- Bring deep expertise in PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, migration management, and handling concurrency in large-scale environments.
- (Bonus) Have hands-on experience with conflict resolution in collaborative systems, graph processing, feature stores, or real-time coordination tools.
- If you’re looking for predictability and structure, this probably isn’t the place for you - we thrive in fast-changing, flexible environments driven by initiative, not routine.
This Might Not Be the Right Role If You
- Prefer clear-cut structure, established processes, or state-of-the-art internal operating systems; we embrace rapid change and flexibility.
- Want a traditional corporate setting with standard roles, well-defined career ladders, and steady routines.
- Rely on top-down guidance, detailed documentation, or formal onboarding; autonomy and self-direction are critical here.
- Crave predictability or highly specialized functions; we reward outcome-driven effort, learning, and the ability to flex between roles rather than sticking to rigid paths.
Interview Process
- Screening call with Talent (Recruiter)
- 1:1 interview with Founder/CTO, Reza Iranmanesh (hiring manager)
- Technical panel: cross-functional technical interview (virtual)
- Onsite interview with direct team and select founding members
Location: Why In-Person Matters
Compensation
Potential Recruitment Fraud Memo
EEO Statement
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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