About this team

As part of the Roleplays team, you'll be working on the engine that powers the heart of Yoodli. You'll be creating an AI-native experience of learning, pushing the bounds of models and real-time systems. You'll work throughout the frontend and backend stacks to build enterprise-grade software that works for company wide rollouts without a hitch. You'll go deep on technical challenges while being front and center to our user experience - building the technology that allows for a whole new paradigm of learning
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
• Experience with LLMs, generative AI, and AI-powered applications
• 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

• Speech/audio processing technologies and real-time communication systems
• NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform

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: $170k - 190k

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