Founding-Level Backend Engineer Equity at Series AI Automation Startup

Location:

San Francisco, CA (5 days in-office)

Visa sponsorship available for select cases.

Join a small, highly technical team building AI-powered workflows that automate mission-critical operations for real-world businesses. This company operates in an industry worth trillions of dollars that still relies heavily on fragmented software, manual processes, spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and legacy systems. Their platform uses AI agents and automation to orchestrate complex operational workflows across these disconnected environments. As a Software Engineer (Backend), you'll design and build end-to-end automation systems, integrate with a wide range of external platforms, and work directly with customers to understand operational bottlenecks and deploy solutions that create immediate business impact.

This is a backend-heavy role with significant ownership, focused on automation, integrations, distributed systems, and applied AI.

• Design and ship agentic workflows that automate critical business operations
• Build reliable integrations across numerous third-party and legacy systems
• Architect backend services and automation infrastructure using Type Script and modern cloud tooling
• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, gather feedback, and rapidly iterate on solutions
• Contribute to system design, technical strategy, and greenfield product development
• Use modern AI engineering tools and coding copilots as a core part of your daily workflow

• 4-12 years of software engineering experience, ideally with strong backend expertise
• Deep experience building production systems in Type Script
• Active user of modern AI engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, or equivalent
• Startup experience strongly preferred
• Experience integrating complex systems, APIs, workflows, or automation platforms
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and owning projects from concept through deployment
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customers
• Curious builder who wants to understand both the technical problem and the business problem
• Experience in operationally complex or traditionally underserved industries
• Previous early-stage startup experience
• Experience working closely with non-technical stakeholders and customers

• Massive market opportunity: the company is modernizing a multi-trillion-dollar industry that remains heavily dependent on manual processes and outdated software.
• Exceptional growth: revenue grew 6x last year and the company is targeting another major step‑function increase this year.
• Timing matters:
  Series A financing is expected to close shortly, creating a rare opportunity to join before the next phase of scaling.
• High ownership: engineers own projects end-to-end and work directly with founders, customers, and business stakeholders.
• Meaningful technical challenges: build reliable automation and AI systems on top of fragmented, real-world infrastructure where the engineering problems are genuinely difficult.
• Strong compensation: competitive salary, meaningful equity, relocation support, and visa sponsorship for qualified candidates.