Sequen - Staff Backend Engineer

Location: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About Us

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

• 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: 280k-350k + equity