Staff Backend Engineer

About Us

Sequen AI is leading the charge for building frontier ranking models for search and recommendations. Sequen AI's technology specializes in designing end-user behavior for large consumer enterprises.

About the Role

• Build and scale platform components to handle Sequen’s rapid growth

• Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases

• Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery

• Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful

• Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features

• Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs

About You

• Have 8+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems

• Firm grasp of Go

• Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures

• Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1

• Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results

• Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions

• Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI ranking

• Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience

Strong Candidates May Also

• Have firm grasp of Python

• Know their way around kubectl and terraform

• Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations

• Have experience with REST APIs

• Have experience with React and Frontend frameworks

What We Offer

• High-autonomy IC role shaping backend architecture and platform evolution

• The opportunity to build mission-critical systems powering advanced ML experiences

• Very competitive salary: 230k-280k + equity

Health insurance, unlimited time off, awesome team