Senior Backend Engineer, you.com
Product
$150-270k
More information about location
AI search infrastructure for enterprises
Job no longer available
AI search infrastructure for enterprises
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-270k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people move faster, think deeper, and do more.
Role
Who you are
- Backend Development Expertise: Proven experience building and deploying REST/RPC services that integrate seamlessly with front-end and mobile platforms
- Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to work with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver user-focused solutions
- Testing and Debugging: Proficient in writing unit and integration tests, with a focus on maintaining high-quality code
- Database Knowledge: Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring performant and scalable query patterns
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to debug and resolve live production issues quickly and effectively
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- Do you enjoy working closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and mobile developers to bring ideas to life? We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about building backend systems that power user-facing features
- In this role, you’ll work on designing and implementing backend services that directly support our AI-driven products, ensuring seamless integration with front-end and mobile platforms. Your work will help shape the user experience for millions of people worldwide
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and mobile developers to design and implement backend services that meet product requirements
- Develop User-Focused Features: Build and maintain backend systems that power user-facing features, ensuring a seamless experience across platforms
- Support Front-End Integration: Ensure smooth communication between backend services and front-end/mobile applications
- Debug and Optimize Systems: Debug live production issues, write tests to prevent future issues, and optimize backend performance for user-facing services
- Iterate on Product Features: Rapidly prototype and refine backend systems based on user feedback and product requirements
- Contribute to Team Culture: Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment, emphasizing strong coding practices and thorough code reviews
Our take
The pressure for enterprises to adopt AI is mounting, but even with impressive advancements to the technology it can be difficult to implement effectively. Foundational models fail to meet the needs of enterprises, which require something they can more easily customise.
This is what you.com recognises and addresses, supplying solutions to empower its clients to build the artificial intelligence that best serves them. The company's enterprise AI product, combined with search and agent APIs and consulting, enables each business to adapt AI intelligently to its industry and aims.
Its a valuable proposition that has not gone unnoticed by the industry, with you.com raising a substantial amount of funding in 2025. This will be used to "build the infrastructure for the agentic era", as the company aims to support its clients into this next age of AI-empowered operations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $197.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
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