# Sofware Engineer, Backend (Staff) at Lightfield

- Company: Lightfield
- What the company does: Lightfield connects to your email, chat and business systems and does the legal work before it reaches your team. It gathers context, applies your policies and past decisions, and presents the finished work for your approval. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://trylightfield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: HQ: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightfield/46e9843d-3b60-4f54-b4f8-ae8784559383
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightfield-sofware-engineer-backend-staff/

## About the role

At Lightfield, the backend is not a layer beneath the product. It is the product's foundation.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and substantial experience building backend systems
- A record of owning significant product-facing systems or ambiguous technical projects from design through production
- Strong judgment about data models, APIs, system boundaries, migrations, and incremental rollout
- Experience operating systems with real reliability, latency, throughput, and correctness requirements
- Comfort debugging across multiple layers of the stack, especially when product behavior and system behavior do not line up neatly

Tags: Engineering