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Glue · 5 months ago

Software Engineer, Backend

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

Glue is a company focused on rethinking work communication by integrating AI into team chat for improved productivity. They are seeking a backend engineer to help prepare their product for launch, working closely with the leadership team to set the direction of the service architecture and APIs.

Computer Software

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Help lead the effort to prepare the product for launch

Work closely with the CEO/CTO and the rest of the Glue team to make early decisions and help set the direction of the service architecture, APIs, codebase, and team culture

Ship daily and experiment with ideas and interactions focusing on usability, attention to detail, performance, and innovation around optimal team communication

Qualification

GolangGraphQL APIPostgreSQLRESTful APIsSQL databasesNoSQL databasesAI/ML pipelinesObservability toolingSelf-motivatedAttention to detail

Required

5+ years of backend development experience, including building resilient, scalable services that handle high-throughput data pipelines

2+ years of designing and maintaining production-grade systems, from data ingestion and model integration to serving and monitoring, with attention to latency and cost trade-offs

2+ years of experience with a strongly-typed, server-side language (e.g. Go, TypeScript) in production environments

2+ years working with SQL (and NoSQL) databases at both application and infrastructure levels, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning

Experience designing and maintaining RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with emphasis on integrating AI/ML inference endpoints and ensuring predictable SLAs

Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and RAG systems, including text chunking, vector store tuning, and relevance optimization

Proficient in observability tooling—monitoring, logging, alerting—to catch edge cases, maintain uptime, and validate model performance in production

Independent and self-motivated; maintaining side projects or open-source libraries in AI/ML is a major plus