Highlight is AI that captures what matters across your meetings, screen, and tools, then drafts the follow-ups where your work happens. Free to start. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff to own critical backend infrastructure: the systems behind team management, permissions, LLM efficiency, and integration-driven workflows. You’ll scale our systems with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and seamless user experience. This is a highly technical role for someone who’s excited to work at the intersection of desktop software, native development, and AI integration, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience at a fast-moving startup with experience shipping production backend systems
- Comfort owning systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and debugging
- Experience building reliable distributed systems (APIs, databases, async jobs, queues, pipelines)
- Experience building real-time systems (WebSockets, pub/sub, event fanout) with low-latency and reliability at scale
- Experience building enterprise-ready multi-tenant systems, including team management, roles/permissions, and admin/internal tooling
- Familiarity with LLM product infrastructure patterns (caching, batching, evals, integrations) is a plus
More about this role
Highlight is building a shared intelligence layer for the modern workforce. Highlight unifies context across every person and tool on your team, seamlessly bridging information silos. It evolves with your organization to proactively route knowledge and reliably automate workflows.
We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff to own critical backend infrastructure: the systems behind team management, permissions, LLM efficiency, and integration-driven workflows. You’ll scale our systems with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and seamless user experience.
This is a highly technical role for someone who’s excited to work at the intersection of desktop software, native development, and AI integration, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Note: this is an on-site role, requiring five days a week in our office.
Build backend systems that support product growth, including multi-tenant foundations, permissions, and internal/admin tooling
Design and operate asynchronous processing systems for background workloads and workflow orchestration
Improve system performance and cost through practical optimizations (caching, batching, efficient data access...
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