# Senior Software Engineer - Backend at HappyRobot

- Company: HappyRobot
- What the company does: Autonomous AI workers that communicate, coordinate, and operate at scale across the real economy. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://happyrobot.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-12-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/happyrobot.ai/224e1cd5-4299-483d-a6d6-70e34130ad94
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/happyrobot-senior-software-engineer-backend/

## 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

Tags: Engineering