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Unify · 6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Backend | Platform

San Francisco Office

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$225K/yr - $265K/yr

8+ years exp

Unify is a company focused on redefining go-to-market strategies with advanced AI solutions. They are seeking a Backend Staff Software Engineer to scale their core platform and collaborate with the founders on new product ideas while establishing engineering standards.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Software

Responsibilities

Scale Unify: Ensure that Unify can scale to support our hyper growth and provide a stable platform for large scale customers such as Cursor, Perplexity and Decagon

Drive the technical roadmap: Collaborate with Product, Design, and GTM stakeholders to translate ambiguous business goals into a clear, phased engineering plan

Set the bar for engineering excellence: Establish coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategy, reliability targets, and observability practices that future teams will inherit

Evaluate & integrate new tech: Rapidly prototype with third-party APIs, databases, model-serving platforms, and infra vendors to accelerate customer value

Mentor & lead: Provide technical leadership for (and — if you’re up for it — manage) engineers across domains—pairing, reviewing, and unblocking as you go

Qualification

PostgreSQLTechnical leadershipCI/CD pipelinesSystem designMentoring

Required

8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years leading critical projects or teams

Deep, hands-on expertise scaling and operating PostgreSQL—designing partitioned/sharded schemas, tuning indexes and queries, automating backups and observability, and running resilient multi-TB clusters with replication and failover

Proven track record of shipping high-impact, production-grade systems at scale

Passion for customers: you prototype quickly, iterate on feedback, and sweat the edge-cases that matter

Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a history of mentoring engineers and leveling up the people around you

Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft