Senior Software Engineer- Backend (Platform)

As part of the Platform team, you'll be building the backend services and architecture that power our product. You'll have impact across analytics, data, search, infrastructure, monitoring, cost management, security, and scaling. You'll work on our highest scale problems, dive deep into technical challenges, and deliver solutions that allow us to scale quickly to meet our customers’ needs, while establishing wide ownership and expertise.

What we’re hoping you bring

• Mission alignment: You believe in our vision and care deeply about helping people achieve more by communicating better.
• Backend expertise: You have strong experience building scalable, reliable backend services that power great user experiences.
• Customer‑centric thinking: You architect right‑sized solutions—secure, maintainable, and built with the end user in mind.
• Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better.

About you

• 5+ years of professional development experience, shipping production code.
• Strong backend capabilities—owned services end‑to‑end and delivered in fast‑moving environments.
• Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, with the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
• Clear communicator who works well across engineering and product, and who gives and receives feedback well.
• You understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Ability to be on‑site in Seattle, WA 3 days a week (M, T, Th).
• NoSQL databases and Kubernetes experience.
• Security and compliance experience.

What’s in it for you?

Huge impact opportunity: Define technical strategy and build foundational systems at a fast‑growing startup. Work directly with the founding team and shape the future of AI‑powered communication coaching.

Competitive compensation: Significant equity opportunities at a venture‑backed company.

Base compensation: $160k – $190k.

Join a fun, inclusive and highly motivated team culture (and help define it!).

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