Staff Backend Engineer (AI Marketing Platform)

A venture-backed company building an AI-native way of working for enterprise marketing teams is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to own the development of its backend, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

Your focus

• Own the design and development of the core backend platform
• Build distributed systems that are scalable, reliable and performant in production
• Write production code yourself as a hands-on individual contributor
• Work with LLMs, AI systems and agentic workflows
• Influence engineering decisions across teams and explain trade-offs to non-technical audiences

Ideal background

• Senior or staff-level engineer with 5 to 16 years of experience and deep backend expertise
• Personally built and shipped the systems you describe, not only led teams that did
• Strong grounding in software architecture and system design
• Experience as an early engineer at a high-growth startup, or a significant role at a larger tech company followed by startup work

On-site in Seattle.