Senior Backend Engineer- Platform

Yoodli AI Roleplays

$160K — $190K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional development experience with a history of shipping production code
  • Strong backend experience, owning services end-to-end in fast-paced environments
  • Solid proficiency with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
  • Expertise in TypeScript or Python, capable of debugging complex distributed systems
  • Effective communication skills, working collaboratively across engineering and product teams
  • Understanding of the connection between technical work and user/business impact
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend services that enhance user experience
  • Architect secure and maintainable solutions with a focus on customer needs
  • Own the delivery of services end-to-end, managing their lifecycle in fast-moving scenarios
  • Deliver high-quality code and system design, elevating the team's overall engineering standards
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to align technical work with user outcomes
  • Identify and solve the highest scale technical challenges for the company
  • Establish expertise and ownership across various aspects of backend architecture

Benefits

  • Huge impact opportunity to shape technical strategy and foundational systems at a fast-growing startup
  • Significant equity opportunities within a venture-backed company
  • Inclusive and motivating team culture that allows you to help define it
  • On-site work 3 days a week to foster collaboration in Seattle, WA
Full Job Description
About this team

As part of the Platform team, you'll be building the backend services and architecture that power our product. You'll have impact across the entirety of Yoodli, across analytics, data, search, infrastructure, monitoring, cost management, security, and scaling. You'll work on our highest scale problems, go deep on technical challenges, and deliver solutions that allow us to scale quickly to match our customers needs. You'll do all this while getting to establish wide ownership and expertise.
What we're hoping you bring

Mission alignment: You believe in our vision and care deeply about helping people achieve more by communicating better

Backend expertise: You have strong experience building scalable, reliable backend services that power great user experiences

Customer-centric thinking: You architect right-sized solutions - secure, maintainable, and built with the end user in mind

Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better
About you
  • 5+ years of professional development experience, shipping production code
  • Strong backend capabilities - you've owned services end-to-end and have a track record of delivering in fast-moving environments
  • Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
  • Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, with the ability to debug complex distributed systems
  • Clear communicator who works well across engineering and product, and who gives and receives feedback well
  • You understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impact
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Ability to be on-site in our Seattle, WA 3 days a week(M, T, Th)
Extra credit experience
  • NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Security and compliance experience
What's in it for you?

Huge impact opportunity: Define technical strategy and build foundational systems at a fast-growing startup. Work directly with the founding team and shape the future of AI-powered communication coaching

Competitive compensation: Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company

Base compensation: $160k - $190k

Join a fun, inclusive and highly motivated team culture (and help define it!)

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