Senior Backend Engineer- Platform

Who we are

Each of us at Yoodli has faced our own communication challenges — overcoming a lisp, freezing during a job interview, feeling anxious about speaking up. That shared empathy shapes a culture that's uplifting, inclusive, and deeply authentic. We value humility, a bias for action, and the belief that we win together.

About This Team

As part of the Platform team, you'll be building the backend services and architecture that power our product. You'll have impact across the entirety of Yoodli, across analytics, data, search, infrastructure, monitoring, cost management, security, and scaling. You'll work on our highest scale problems, go deep on technical challenges, and deliver solutions that allow us to scale quickly to match our customers needs.

You'll do all this while getting to establish 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 - you've owned services end-to-end and have a track record of delivering in fast‑moving environments
• Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
• Proficiency in Type Script 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 our Seattle, WA 3 days a week (Mon, Tue, Thu)

Extra Credit Experience

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  SQL databases and Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• 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.#J-18808-Ljbffr