Staff Backend Engineer, Pulley
Data
$185-220k
+ Equity
Equity information platform for startups
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Equity information platform for startups
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-220k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make it easier for anyone to start a company.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience building backend systems at scale
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages - ideally Go or Python
- Deep understanding of database design, data modeling, and persistence best practices
- Experience designing APIs and working across the stack in close collaboration with frontend teams
- Product intuition and a track record of shaping features that solve real customer problems
- A systems-thinking mindset. You care about abstractions, long-term scalability, and maintainability
- Ability to mentor and technically lead cross-functional projects
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of critical backend systems that power Pulley’s product experience
- This is a foundational role focused on building scalable infrastructure, shaping our data models and APIs, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams to ship high-impact features for startup founders
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll set the technical direction for projects that span the stack, laying the groundwork for our core product, AI capabilities, and internal tooling
- You’ll play a pivotal role in modernizing our platform, improving system performance, and ensuring our data models and persistence layers are robust, maintainable, and well-aligned with the needs of our customers
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves turning business problems into clean abstractions, and wants to work on systems that truly power company-building at scale
- Design and evolve backend services, APIs, and data models to support new product features and platform capabilities
- Lead architecture decisions that improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems
- Own key parts of our persistence layer, including database schema design, migrations, and data integrity
- Collaborate with AI, frontend, and product engineers to deliver seamless user experiences
- Partner with PMs and designers to scope and define product initiatives from concept to launch
- Champion code quality, technical rigor, and maintainability across the codebase
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team
Our take
Due to startups raising funding in multiple stages, calculating the ownership breakdown as the business evolves can be difficult. Pulley hopes to make that process less opaque with cap-table management and scenario-modelling tools that provide founders with employee and investor equity information.
The platform enables startups to model dilution in future rounds, helps employees understand the value of their equity as the company grows, and makes maintaining equity plans faster and easier.
Based on the costs to manage cap tables and the potential opportunity lost due to companies staying private for longer periods, the market Pulley operates in is worth up to $10 billion. Competition comes from Carta and Morgan Stanley's Shareworks.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Oct 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $50.2m
Company benefits
- Generous health insurance
- Unlimited vacations
- Commuting & food
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Yin Wu
(Founder)Computer Science BS from Stanford. Former software engineer at Microsoft and founder of several computer technology start-ups.
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