[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Grader)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is an AI-native system designed to help local business owners, particularly in the restaurant industry, succeed online. The Staff Software Engineer will own the backend services and data pipelines for Grader, a product that provides restaurant health reports, ensuring scalability and reliability as the product evolves.
Responsibilities
- Own the backend services and data pipelines that power Grader scans end-to-end — from ingesting third-party reputed company signals (reputed company, reputed company, menus, LLM GEO signals) to serving results reliably at scale
- Harden the platform before expansion — reduce latency, increase uptime, and build the observability and alerting layer the team needs to confidently scale Grader into new scoring dimensions
- Establish platform foundations — shared abstractions, operational runbooks, and architectural patterns that reduce toil and give other engineers a reliable reputed company to build on
- Partner closely with PLG product and the AI Agents team as Grader evolves into a broader AI-powered tool for restaurant owners
Skills
- 7+ years, with meaningful time owning backend services in production
- Experience building and operating data pipelines, third-party integrations, and async processing systems at scale
- Proven track record improving system reliability — observability, alerting, incident reduction, and making operational health a team habit
- Experience at a product-focused startup or scale-up where you owned systems end-to-end
- High degree of cross-functional collaboration — past colleagues in product, design, and business would speak highly of your teamwork
- Strong sense of ownership and drive, excellent communication, and a proactive approach to identifying and solving problems
Benefits
- A generous pre-IPO equity package
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Work from reputed company (remote-first workplace)
- Unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
Company Overview
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