Senior Backend Engineer (San Francisco)
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Salary: $175,000 - $220,000 per year A bit about us: Senior Software Engineer (Backend Focus) San Francisco - 4 days/week working in office
Compensation: $175 – $220k base salary + equity We’re partnered with an early-stage, venture-backed technology company building infrastructure that supports sophisticated participants across the private capital ecosystem. Their platform blends institutional-quality data, analytics, and marketplace capabilities to power complex investment workflows. The company has already established strong traction with reputable financial institutions and meaningful activity across its platform, and is now entering its next phase of product expansion. They’re looking to bring on a Senior Backend Engineer who will help scale backend systems and contribute to accelerating product development. This position offers meaningful ownership and collaboration with technical leadership on architecture decisions, data platform evolution, and integrations that enable advanced user workflows. Why join us? Real Product Traction — Not Just Vision
- Join a startup that has already built meaningful adoption with sophisticated institutional users and is actively supporting real transactions and decision-making workflows today.
- You’ll shape core platform systems, influence architecture decisions, and see your work directly affect customers and product direction.
- Step into a phase where foundational risk has been reduced, but there’s still meaningful room to influence the roadmap, technical direction, and long-term platform evolution.
- Work alongside pragmatic, low-ego engineers who value speed, quality, thoughtful decision-making and embrace modern tooling and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate output.
- Tackle challenges around data normalization, system scalability, distributed architecture, and AI-enabled integrations
- Take ownership of meaningful technical surface area early, with opportunities to expand scope, deepen architectural influence, and grow alongside the company.
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership in-person while maintaining flexibility that supports productivity and focus.
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs supporting core product functionality
- Develop scalable systems that ingest, structure, and enhance data from fragmented or unstructured sources
- Create pipelines that convert raw inputs into reliable, high-quality datasets for downstream use
- Support integrations enabling programmatic access to platform data, including AI-driven interaction layers
- Contribute to the evolution of modular, event-driven system architecture
- Participate in system design discussions, technical planning, and engineering prioritization
- Own significant platform components from concept through production
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to work onsite 4 days/week in downtown SF
- 3-6 years of professional software engineering experience with backend or backend-leaning full-stack focus
- Experience operating in startup or high-growth environments preferred
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript or another statically typed language (Scala, Rust, Haskell, etc.)
- Track record of building production-grade systems and contributing to architectural decisions
- Comfortable incorporating modern AI-assisted development tools into daily workflow
- Ability to deliver scalable, maintainable systems at a fast pace
- Collaborative, pragmatic, and ownership-oriented mindset
- Eagerness to grow technical scope and responsibility over time
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