Senior Software Engineer- Backend (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 production code
  • Strong backend capabilities with end-to-end service ownership
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Proficiency in TypeScript or Python for debugging complex systems
  • Ability to communicate effectively across engineering and product teams
  • Understanding of the impact of work on business outcomes and user experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable and reliable backend services to enhance user experience
  • Architect solutions that are secure, maintainable, and user-focused
  • Deliver high-quality code and improve the craftsmanship among team members
  • Navigate and resolve complex technical challenges effectively
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on user impact and business goals
  • Contribute to technical strategy and foundational systems as the company grows

Benefits

  • Define technical strategy and build foundational systems in a growing startup
  • Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company
  • Enjoy a fun, inclusive, and highly motivated team culture
  • Opportunity to work directly with the founding team and influence future directions
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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