Senior Engineer - Backend & Platform

Location
San Francisco, Toronto
Workplace
Remote
Compensation
$190k – $300k + equity
Visa
No Visa Sponsorship

About this role

What we're looking for:

We're looking for a generalist, high-agency engineer with 5+ years of backend experience building customer-facing products. You should have startup DNA — experience at top-tier startups (Series B or earlier) or as a founder — and a product mindset that ties technical decisions to business impact. We need someone who questions the "why, " drives projects end-to-end without oversight, and thrives in early-stage ambiguity with high ownership and fast iteration.

What you'll do:

Own and ship product features end-to-end — from problem scoping through backend implementation to production

Design and ship LLM agents that reason over large, messy, real-world organizational data, and make them reliable enough to trust

Make key technical decisions across the product and backend — architecture, data modeling, APIs, tooling — and set the engineering quality bar

Operate with full autonomy; in a team this small, your judgment directly shapes the product, the codebase, and the company

Own high-risk, high-impact projects in a fire-and-forget work style with minimal hand-holding

Shape the product direction alongside the founding team; translate customer needs into technical solutions

Work closely with the founding team to support growing client engagements ranging from hundreds to thousands of employees

What happens next

Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.

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