We're Sharp Performance Sharp Performance exists so that everyone who answers the call has someone in their corner who has walked in their shoes. Backed by a16z.
About the role
Sharp Performance runs a 1-1 coaching marketplace. The C-Squad owns the core platform behind it: the backend, data model, and integrations that coaches, managers, and every other squad build on. That platform got us here. Now it needs to scale to support more users and functionality without slowing the teams that depend on it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years building and running production backend systems, with recent time at staff or lead level
- A product mindset. You care as much about what we build as how we build it. You ask “why” early, push back when something doesn’t serve users, and work with product and design to shape the roadmap, not just execute it
- Deep platform engineering experience: you've owned the infrastructure, deploy pipeline, and runtime of a growing product, not just features on top of it
- A track record of scaling a system through real growth. You can tell us what broke, how you found it, and what you changed
- Strong relational database skills (MySQL or PostgreSQL): schema design, query tuning, indexing, migrations on live data
- Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
More about this role
Sharp Performance runs a 1-1 coaching marketplace. The C-Squad owns the core platform behind it: the backend, data model, and integrations that coaches, managers, and every other squad build on. That platform got us here. Now it needs to scale to support more users and functionality without slowing the teams that depend on it.
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to co-own that problem. You'll help set the technical direction for the platform, write a real share of the code, and raise the bar for how the squad designs, ships, and runs software. This is a senior IC role with team-level leverage, not a people-management track.
We're all in on agentic engineering. Every squad runs AI agents across the SDLC: implementation, code review, testing, incident triage, and maintenance. We treat agents as participants in delivery, not chat assistants. That means a disciplined harness around them: tight scope, specialized agents, verification, and human approval before anything ships. Right now we're giving agents controlled access to production evidence (code, logs, database state) so they can test hypotheses and validate fixes themselves.
That changes what platform work means here. Our...
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