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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** WHITEACE LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, SQL Databases, Large Language Models, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Agentic-AI, Kubernetes, Api Design, Cisco
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=827fd1dd84775279

## About the Role

We're looking for a generalist, high-agency engineer with 5+ years of backend experience building customer-facing products. You should have startup DNA - experience at top-tier startups (Series B or earlier) or as a founder - and a product mindset that ties technical decisions to business impact. We need someone who questions the "why," drives projects end-to-end without oversight, and thrives in early-stage ambiguity with high ownership and fast iteration., * Must have Experience at top- tier startups (Series B or earlier) or as a founder; production- deployed software at a real company

 * Must have Built and shipped customer- facing backend products at production scale

Hard skills

 * Must have Deep Python expertise for production backend systems
 * Must have Strong backend architecture and systems design skills

Baseline

Seniority

 * Required 5+ years of experience with focus on customer- facing products

Work experience

 * Required Set technical direction on ambiguous, high- impact projects end to end
 * Required Generalist - not a pure infra/backend specialist; comfortable building across the product surface

Hard skills

 * Required Proficient in API design and SQL data stores
 * Required Hands- on experience building with LLMs or agentic AI systems

Soft skills

 * Required Product mindset - ties technical work to business/customer impact, not just internal systems

Nice-to-have

Work experience

 * Direct experience working with customers

Hard skills

 * Fluent with AI coding tools; uses AI as a force multiplier without outsourcing thinking

Traits to avoid

 * Infra, platform, DevOps, data or ML engineer as the current or most recent title, or a resume that is K8s, pipelines and models with no customer- facing product
 * Long tenure at slow- moving orgs (govt, banks) or 6- 7+ years at big tech (Microsoft, LinkedIn, Apple, Cisco) with no evidence of independent initiative

## Description

* Own and ship product features end-to-end - from problem scoping through backend implementation to production
 * Design and ship LLM agents that reason over large, messy, real-world organizational data, and make them reliable enough to trust
 * Make key technical decisions across the product and backend - architecture, data modeling, APIs, tooling - and set the engineering quality bar
 * Operate with full autonomy; in a team this small, your judgment directly shapes the product, the codebase, and the company
 * Own high-risk, high-impact projects in a fire-and-forget work style with minimal hand-holding
 * Shape the product direction alongside the founding team; translate customer needs into technical solutions
 * Work closely with the founding team to support growing client engagements ranging from hundreds to thousands of employees