Senior Backend Engineer

We have created the frameworks for how to build product market fit and redefined the narrative of how to onboard customers successfully. We have shown the world it’s possible to build a premium productivity brand. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, IVP, Tiger Global Management, Sam Altman, and the founders of Gmail, Dropbox, Reddit, Discord, Stripe, GitHub, AngelList, and Intercom.

This time, we’re swinging beyond the fences and fundamentally rethinking how individuals and teams should collaborate. We are building a household brand and a worldwide organization. We are here to do the best work of our lives, and we hope you are too.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Pod, you will build and improve the architecture supporting Superhuman’s AI features. You will collaborate closely with engineers across diverse skill sets and work with tools and systems such as Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, LLMs, Vector Databases, and more.

Role Summary

• Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve millions of users
• Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
• Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system
• Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
• Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
• Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
• Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
• Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

Requirements

• Experience: You have 8+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development. You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale.
• Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art.
• Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to unblock others and speed things up.
• Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company.
• Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
• Location: We're open to you joining us from a home office anywhere in North or South America, with a preference for those based in Canada or Latin America (to continue building our engineering presence within these regions).
• Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow.

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