Distinguished Systems Architect

2 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States Recruiting from Scratch Full time

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We help companies sell on the internet by automating customer journeys using data and AI. Our product provides deep insights, tests new ideas, and implements strategies 10-100x faster.

About Us

We were founded in 2021, our founders met at UC Berkeley in 2011 while studying computer science. We launched in late 2022 and grew to over 1000+ paying customers, in under a year with no sales or marketing budget.

To date, we've raised over $8.2M from Figma, YCombinator, Vercel, General Catalyst, Infinity Ventures, MAGIC Fund, Base Case Capital. We're headquartered in San Francisco.

About the role

Hiring a senior backend engineer to join our team and focus on system architecture behind a lot of our most popular products.

  • Architecting and implementing backend systems in Typescript/Node is the core of what you'll be doing. Real examples include —
  • Designing and building an ingestion pipeline for page analytics
  • Building out an A-B testing platform
  • Spiking on our CI platform for a week to improve stability
  • Deploying a multi-tenant NextJS app to render pages on Cloudflare and automatically revalidate in response to queued webhook handlers
  • Mentoring junior engineers on best-practices

Looking for someone who:

  • Can be hybrid in San Francisco.
  • Has deep knowledge in distributed systems and SOA — load balancers, databases, queuing, caching, HTTP, APIs, high-availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, at-least-two-of-everything.
  • Down to do full-stack work (including frontend even if it's not your main role).
  • Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features.
  • Has 4+ years of professional experience with production distributed systems, service oriented architecture.
  • Proficient in Typescript. If you have experience writing these systems in Python/Go/Java that's cool too, as long as you're willing to learn Typescript/Node — the learning curve on writing TS isn't that high for high-caliber engineers. Experience or working knowledge of React is great too, but we can teach you that if we need to.
  • Has a product and customer-focused mindset.
  • Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how backend systems should be built, that's good.
  • Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we're the ones that have to read it and understand it).
  • Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points.

Bonus points if you:

  • Have started a company before
  • Enjoy attending hackathons
  • Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously
  • Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode
  • Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).

Compensation: $180-250k base + equity Benefits: health, dental, vision. 401k



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