Senior Software Engineer, People.ai
Matching
Ai revenue platform for sales teams
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Ai revenue platform for sales teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give revenue leaders more than raw data - give them the answers they need to take action.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience working on backend systems in an enterprise environment
- 3+ years experience with data analysis / data science tasks and/or ML
- 2+ years experience programming in Python 2.x/3.x or Scala or Java
- Experience with AI development tools (especially agentic AI) is a plus
- Experience developing systems based on LLM is a plus
- Understanding of SOA, microservices, and event-driven architecture
- Experience with an enterprise-grade stack for scalable web apps including messaging broker, in-memory storages, NoSQL, and key-value databases
- Strong knowledge of TDD, Unit, and automated test paradigms
- Experience with SQL and RDBMS solutions
- Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Matching team, you will work on Backstory's foundational technology — matching business activities to business context
- You will handle a vast amount of business data, perform data-driven research, design and develop algorithms and microservice architecture, write machine learning and automation code, and build scalable systems that power the AI-engine behind Backstory's products
- We value ownership highly — the ability to take an idea through all the stages from conception to shipping a product
- This reflects throughout our company, but is especially true in engineering. As an engineer at Backstory, you'll be a part of a highly independent and autonomous team
- Since we're building out a robust data layer that needs to be presented elegantly to the end-user, you'll be working with a large array of different technologies and fields. Expect lots of interesting challenges
- Design and implement core backend services and data pipelines
- Perform data-driven research using big data and leveraging Data Science toolset
- Document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run services
- Provide appropriate test coverage, unit and integration testing, with focus on performance and cost efficiency for your feature ownership areas
- Ensure robust alerting, dashboards, and runbooks for production services are in place
- Collaborate within the team and with other engineering teams to build new features and products according to business needs
- Follow software design and development best practices and promote such practices in the team
Our take
People.ai has built a platform that helps sales teams make the most of the data they generate daily, offering valuable guidance to help source and close more deals. By using AI, it analyzes business activities like emails, meetings, and contacts, providing actionable insights to sales, marketing, and operations teams.
In a strategic move, People.ai acquired Hero Research, a Salesforce productivity app. This has allowed the company to launch a new integration with Salesforce, giving sales teams the flexibility to manage their pipeline, territories, and activities in a more optimal way.
Alongside this, companies like Zoom, Slack, Verizon Connect, and Okta already rely on People.ai to boost marketing ROI and drive revenue growth. Moving forward, the company plans to continue building partnerships with new channels, such as system integrators, targeting larger enterprises to scale its impact.
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Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Feb 2021
$7.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $205.4m
Company benefits
- Company Equity: We offer compensation packages that allow you to share in our long-term success.
- Flexible Work: We are a remote-first company. Work from home or join us at our San Francisco-based HQ.
- Home Office Perks: We offer a monthly phone and Internet allowance, as well as office setup reimbursement for new hires.
- Flexible PTO: Batteries, even proverbial ones, need to be recharged. Take the time you need when you need it.
- Company-wide Holidays: We schedule holidays for everyone to be offline at once to unplug and recharge.
- Inclusive Parental Leave: For birthing and non-birthing parents, plus adoption and foster leave.
- Healthcare Packages: We offer medical, dental, and vision plans, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care.
- Insurance Coverage: Employer-paid life insurance, AD&D, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Save for your retirement on a pre-tax and/or post-tax basis.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Ambrose
(CEO)Jason joined People.ai in 2025 as an SVP of Marketing & Strategy, after 3 months in the role, he was promoted to CEO. Previously, he was an Independent Consultant, a Managing Director at Motive Partners, and an SVP of Strategy & Partnerships at Unqork.
Natalie Wolf
(CCO)Prior to joining People.ai in 2024, Natalie was an Advisor at Innovius Capital, a VP of Customer Success at TigerConnect, a Consultant of Global Customer Strategy & Operations at FourKites and VP of North America Customer Value at Celonis.
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