Staff Backend Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
230K-280K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software
The Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will build scalable platform components, collaborate with product teams, and set technical direction. You'll leverage your 8+ years of experience in backend engineering to navigate and deliver effective solutions across various system parts, fostering a product-focused approach.
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About Us

Sequen AI is leading the charge for building frontier ranking models for search and recommendations. Sequen AI's technology specializes in designing end-user behavior for large consumer enterprises.

About the Role
  • Build and scale platform components to handle Sequen’s rapid growth

  • Design and architect platform components that are composable and deliver value for a variety of use cases

  • Collaborate closely with product teams to understand their needs and build platform capabilities that accelerate their feature delivery

  • Make build vs buy decisions, evaluating and implementing 3rd party solutions when most impactful

  • Set technical direction and vision for various product and platform features

  • Partner with research to quickly prototype and launch new capabilities based on research breakthroughs

About You
  • Have 8+ years of practical experience as a backend or platform engineer building scalable distributed systems

  • Firm grasp of Go

  • Have strong coding skills and experience with service-oriented architectures

  • Have worked in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1

  • Take full ownership of your work, navigate ambiguity effectively, and proactively overcome obstacles to deliver results

  • Are comfortable diving into any part of the system, whether it's infrastructure, services, or product frontends, to deliver effective solutions

  • Enjoy working with a fast-paced team tackling cutting-edge problems in AI ranking

  • Take a product-focused approach and care about building solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use

  • Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience

Strong Candidates May Also

  • Have firm grasp of Python

  • Know their way around kubectl and terraform

  • Have worked with NLP and ML models and understand their capabilities and limitations

  • Have experience with REST APIs

  • Have experience with React and Frontend frameworks

What We Offer
  • High-autonomy IC role shaping backend architecture and platform evolution

  • The opportunity to build mission-critical systems powering advanced ML experiences

  • Very competitive salary: 230k-280k + equity

Health insurance, unlimited time off, awesome team

Top Skills

Go
Kubectl
Ml
Nlp
Python
React
Rest
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
8 Employees

What We Do

The first Behavior Design Engine for the enterprise.

Sequen isn’t retrofitted AI search or recommendations. It rethinks relevance from first principles.

Sequen introduces the first foundational Large Event Model (LEM), trained on billions of user event sequences and built natively on a reinforcement learning infrastructure.

LEMs are specialized neural networks that predict the next user event—just as LLMs predict the next word. Sequen’s LEMs are pre-trained on billions of user-site interactions and fine-tuned to optimize for the outcomes you care about.

No more fixed pipelines with fragmented infrastructure. Sequen replaces them with a single endpoint that adaptively handles all phases of personalization via LEMs and memory models—all through a sub-25ms API.

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