Senior Software Engineer — XCore
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Company size
- Startup
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No BS summary
Senior Software Engineer needed for foundational layer ownership. Requires end-to-end ownership, partnering with Product, architecting low-latency distributed services, and handling massive data consistency. Ideal for engineers who pride themselves on solid foundations and want a high-visibility platform.
As a Senior SWE on the XCore team you will own the foundational layer that every other product at Backstory.ai is built on. From identity and authorization to audit logging and BI data exports, the systems you design set the standard for how the entire engineering organization builds and scales. This is a true end-to-end ownership role — you'll partner directly with Product to challenge and shape requirements, architect low-latency distributed services that move massive amounts of data with absolute consistency, and see your technical decisions ripple across the entire product. If you're the kind of engineer who takes pride in getting the foundations right and wants a high-visibility platform to champion engineering excellence, this is the role for you.
What you'll do
- Own the foundational layer that every other product at Backstory.ai is built on.
- Design systems for identity and authorization, audit logging, and BI data exports.
- Set the standard for how the entire engineering organization builds and scales.
- Partner directly with Product to challenge and shape requirements.
- Architect low-latency distributed services that move massive amounts of data with absolute consistency.
- See technical decisions ripple across the entire product.
What they require
- Senior SWE on the XCore team.
- Takes pride in getting the foundations right.
- Wants a high-visibility platform to champion engineering excellence.
Backstory (formerly People.ai) is an AI answers platform for sales teams. It helps sales teams get trusted answers in their existing AI workflows and supports customers across enterprise, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and defense. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by investors including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital.