Staff Backend Engineer

 Posted a month ago
     
 $230K - $280K per year
  
5-10 years experience
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AI Summary

Design and scale platform components to support rapid growth while collaborating with product teams to accelerate feature delivery. Set technical direction and partner with research teams to prototype and launch new capabilities.

About Us

Sequen AI is leading the charge for building frontier ranking models for search and recommendations. Sequen AI's technology specializes in designing end-user behavior for large consumer enterprises.

About the Role

  • 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

About You

  • 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

Strong Candidates May Also

  • 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

What We Offer

  • 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

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