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Unify · 3 days ago

Staff Software Engineer - Backend | Platform

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$225K/yr - $265K/yr
date8+ years exp

Unify is a company focused on redefining go-to-market strategies with state-of-the-art AI. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to scale their core platform, collaborate with founders on new product ideas, and establish engineering standards to support their growth.

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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

PostgreSQLCI/CD pipelinesTechnical leadershipPrototypingEngineering standardsCollaborationMentoringFast-paced environment

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

Benefits

Equity package
Comprehensive benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) options

Company

Unify

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The world’s first warm outbound platform - book 25% more pipeline with half the effort.
dateFounded in 2023
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.unifygtm.com

H1B Sponsorship

Unify has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)
2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$69.91M
Key Investors
Battery Ventures
2025-07-15Series B· $40M
2024-10-08Series A· $12M
2024-06-21Seed· $11.66M

Leadership Team

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Austin Hughes
Co-Founder, CEO
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Connor Heggie
Co-Founder, CTO
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