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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

HappyRobot · San Francisco · Remote

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About HappyRobot

Autonomous AI workers that communicate, coordinate, and operate at scale across the real economy. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

We are looking for a versatile and highly skilled Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team. This person will own meaningful parts of the product and infrastructure end-to-end. We’re looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about craft, and want real ownership over what they create. Design, build, and operate backend services that support our core product

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional experience
  • Strong backend engineering experience, with a focus on building scalable systems
  • Experience with Go or a strong willingness to work in Go in production
  • Solid understanding of system design, APIs, data modeling, and service reliability
  • Product-oriented mindset and comfort making tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment
  • Experience operating and maintaining production services
More about this role

HappyRobot is the infrastructure for enterprises to build and orchestrate AI workforces. Our AI workers don't just communicate through voice and email - they make decisions, take action, and run operations autonomously across entire enterprise systems. Born in Y Combinator (S23) and backed by a16z, Base10, Prysm Capital and Eurazeo with over $150M raised, we power critical operations for global enterprises worldwide.

Our platform is battle-tested in the most demanding environments, where AI has real consequences. We started in logistics, built our own voice stack, models, and orchestration layer from the ground up, and are now bringing that infrastructure to every enterprise that runs the real economy. Learn more about our vision in our manifesto.

We are looking for a versatile and highly skilled Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our team. This person will own meaningful parts of the product and infrastructure end-to-end. We’re looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about craft, and want real ownership over what they create.

5+ years of professional experience

Strong backend engineering experience, with a focus on building scalable systems

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