Server-Side Software Engineer (Consumer App)

Join a young, well-capitalized consumer technology company that builds on conversational AI. The app already has a sizable audience in its home city and is preparing to launch in more metro areas across the US. Engineering needs to prepare the backend for many times today’s audience while keeping a close watch on the cloud bill.

Your focus

• Review the main server-side services for resilience and performance, including the conversational features, the onboarding flow and integrations with outside partners
• Decide how sensitive, personal profile data gathered from lengthy chats gets structured and stored
• Create the pipelines that deliver user context to recommendation logic, sign-up and fresh product ideas
• Develop responsive services for live AI conversations that stay quick without burning through the compute budget
• Look after the data platforms behind personalization and A/B tests, taking each from first sketch to scaled production use

About you

• Four to six years working on server-side software, plus a four-year degree
• A previous stint at an early-stage company (seed through Series B), preferably among the first employees
• Strong in at least one of Python, Go, TypeScript or Java
• Solid grounding in SQL databases, caches, asynchronous workers and data tooling
• Experience shaping APIs and scalable service architectures
• Bonus: prior work on consumer-facing apps

Office-based in San Francisco. Relocation help and visa sponsorship are not offered.