Staff Backend Engineer

6 days ago

San Francisco, CA, United States Beacon Full time
About the Company:

They are a pioneering "Generative Engine Optimization" (GEO) platform that helps brands get discovered and perform well on the next generation of search: AI-powered, generative search engines (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, plus emerging GenAI engines).

The company is based in San Francisco, was founded around 2024-2025, and has received seed funding (notably from Y Combinator as part of its Winter 2025 batch).

About the Role
Our Client is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to design and build the core platform capabilities that power leading companies like Greptile, Julius, Render, SoFi, and others. This person will play a critical role in translating complex business problems into elegant technical solutions-while driving measurable improvements across performance, automation, and user experience.Mission
  • Build foundational backend and platform features that support enterprise-scale customers
  • Translate business needs into robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems
  • Identify opportunities for intelligent automation and workflow optimization
  • Deliver backend architecture that anticipates user goals and enables new product capabilities
Key Outcomes
  • Improve system latency through architectural enhancements and performance tuning
  • Reduce user workload per week through automation, workflow efficiencies, and backend-driven intelligence
  • Consistently ship features that users didn't know they needed-by deeply understanding their goals and uncovering more efficient paths to them
Core Competencies
  • Customer Empathy: Ability to understand user needs, motivations, and friction points, and build systems that meaningfully address them
  • Exceptional Problem-Solving: Strong analytical thinking, systems design, debugging, and optimization skills
  • High Agency: History of founding something, leading major initiatives, or building impactful side projects
  • Fast Learner: Thrives in ambiguous environments and can absorb new concepts, systems, and technologies quickly
  • Spiky Talent: Deep expertise in at least one area- backend systems, distributed systems, databases, infrastructure, etc.
  • Intelligence & Drive: Demonstrates ownership, craftsmanship, and a values-driven approach to engineering


Tech Stack

Frontend:
  • Next.js App Router
  • React 19
  • Motion
  • Tailwind + Radix primitives
Backend:
  • Node.js
  • Temporal
  • Kubernetes
  • Postgres
  • OLAP systems

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