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# Principal Backend Engineer- Admin Workflows

- **Company:** Yoodli AI Roleplays
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Audio Signal Processing, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.seattlejobs.com/job.asp?id=3316231371&tx=JP7771FFJ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

Backend expertise: You have deep experience architecting scalable, reliable backend services and setting technical direction that levels up an entire team

Comfort with ambiguity: You thrive on tough, open-ended product problems, unreliable LLMs, and challenging architectures - and you bring order to them

Customer-centric thinking: You architect right-sized solutions - secure, maintainable, and built with the end user in mind

Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better, * 8+ years of professional development experience shipping and operating production systems

 * Deep backend expertise - you've architected and owned services end-to-end, and set technical direction in fast-moving environments
 * Track record of designing distributed systems and APIs that scale, and of raising the engineering bar through mentorship and technical leadership
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
 * Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, with the ability to debug complex distributed systems
 * Clear communicator who who effectively leads collaborations across engineering and product, and who gives and receives feedback well
 * You understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impact
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
 * This role is hybrid with an expectation of 3 days a week in the office - you'll need to be based in the Greater Seattle Area.

Extra credit experience:

 * Experience with LLMs, generative AI, and AI-powered applications
 * Speech/audio processing technologies
 * NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
 * Google Cloud Platform

## Description

As a Principal Backend Engineer on the Admin Workflows team, you'll own the systems that turn an admin's ideas and raw materials into engaging, AI-first training in minutes. Your job is to make that magic more powerful and more reliable at enterprise scale: building the content integrations that ingest source material from the systems customers already use, the agent framework that powers those roleplays, and the content creation workflows at the heart of our admin experience. You'll also help tell the story of the impact of Yoodli through AI-powered analysis and analytics - feedback and skills intelligence integrated deeply enough that customers can measure real improvement of their learners, not just activity.


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