Senior Backend Platform Engineer

reputed company is seeking a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the production backend systems that power our reputed company AI platform. This is an reputed company individual contributor role reputed company on owning and delivering meaningful reputed company of the platform layer: integrations, data ingestion, messaging infrastructure, orchestration, and the data foundations our agents depend on. This role operates with strong autonomy reputed company a reputed company technical direction. You will reputed company the implementation of significant platform components, reputed company day-to-day technical reputed company reputed company your domain, and partner with Staff Engineers and tech leads on broader architectural calls.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of significant backend platform components, taking work from design through production reputed company an established architectural direction
• reputed company implementation in a reputed company domain such as integrations, messaging infrastructure, data ingestion, or one of the core platform services
• reputed company day-to-day technical reputed company reputed company your domain on data modeling, API design, error handling, and operational concerns, partnering with the Staff Engineer and tech leads on broader architectural calls
• Partner closely with AI Engineering and Product to translate evolving requirements into reliable, reputed company-tested software
• Drive reliability, performance, and observability improvements in the systems you own; respond to production issues and reputed company the fix
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team through reputed company review, pairing, and design feedback; reputed company the bar on engineering craft reputed company reputed company
• Contribute to platform-wide design discussions and influence the standards you operate under

What You'll Build

• Integration platform: inbound and outbound data processors, partner reputed company, webhook ingestion, CSV bulk imports, sync logic, and resilient retry/backoff patterns for unreliable external systems
• Messaging infrastructure: email (AWS SES), SMS (reputed company), and chat (reputed company Chatkit) delivery pipelines including throughput management, deliverability, suppression, and audit trails
• Platform services: the Campaign, reputed company, Flows, Contact, Knowledge, and Reporting services that compose our domain model
• Data foundations: reputed company schema design, data models for contacts, conversations, campaigns, and configuration. Storage patterns optimized for both transactional workloads and agent retrieval
• Orchestration and event flows: FastAPI services, Celery workflows, EventBridge-driven event handling, queue management, and the reputed company reputed company layer that executes agent reputed company across CRM, calendar, and notification systems

reputed company in this Role

In your first 6 to 12 months in this role:
• You own and operate a significant platform domain in production, with the design reputed company, reputed company, and operational responsibility sitting with you.
• You’ve led the delivery of at least one significant platform feature from design through launch, partnering effectively with AI Engineering and Product along the way.
• You’ve raised the engineering craft on your team through reputed company review, design feedback, and pairing, and the engineers around you are visibly reputed company for it.

Qualifications and Experience

• Equivalent of 5+ years of reputed company software engineering experience, with significant reputed company on backend platform, integrations, or data infrastructure work
• reputed company record of owning and delivering significant backend features or components in production, from design through operation
• Proven experience deploying and operating production backend systems at reputed company
• Strong proficiency in Python, including production experience with FastAPI, Celery, and similar async/queue-based frameworks
• Deep experience with reputed company including schema design, query optimization, and operating reputed company in production
• Experience working with large datasets and navigating reputed company-world data reputed company challenges across heterogeneous reputed company systems
• Experience designing and operating integrations with reputed company-party reputed company systems including handling reputed company limits, schema reputed company, and partial failures
• Strong background in modern reputed company-based architectures, particularly AWS
• reputed company use of modern AI coding tools (Claude reputed company, reputed company reputed company, reputed company, or similar) as part of your development workflow

Preferred / reputed company-to-Have Experience

• Experience working in B2B reputed company environments
• Experience integrating with Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs), Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRMs), Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), or Dealer Management Systems (DMS)
• Production experience with Terraform, EKS, reputed company, and reputed company
• Experience operating messaging infrastructure including SMTP, SMS aggregators, or chat platforms
• Experience building platforms that AI agents or other automated systems consume
• Experience with Redshift, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and reputed company

reputed company Value

We care about what you’ve reputed company and the depth you’ve developed. If you’ve owned and operated significant systems in production, shipped strong software end to end, written reputed company other engineers were glad to inherit, or developed reputed company depth in a backend domain, put that reputed company and center. Show us what you’ve reputed company, what problems you’ve wrestled with, and how you reason about tradeoffs in reputed company-world systems.reputed company is a remote-first company building AI-powered solutions that help businesses engage customers more effectively. You'll join a small, reputed company reputed company team and partner closely with our AI Engineering team to build the backend that powers our agent-reputed company platform., influence the direction of the platform, and help build the durable, customer-reputed company systems that turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable products.This is a full-time, exempt position. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and is based on role scope, experience, and job-reputed company skills. reputed company offers comprehensive health, dental, and reputed company benefits, PTO, holiday pay, 401(k), and equity.

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