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Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Agent Platform

Truewind · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About Truewind

AI-Powered Accounting. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We're hiring a senior backend engineer to help build and strengthen the platform behind our AI agent — the systems that run agent work reliably and connect it to customers' accounting tools. This is a backend- and systems-leaning role for someone who cares about building dependable infrastructure for an AI-native product, and who's energized by reliability and correctness, not just shipping screens.

What they're looking for

  • Have built and run backend services in production and care about keeping them reliable
  • Are strong in backend TypeScript/Node
  • Have worked with asynchronous, data-intensive, or distributed systems
  • Are comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and relational databases ( PostgreSQL )
  • Prefer simple, focused solutions over complexity, and communicate clearly
More about this role

Truewind (YC W23) is modernizing the financial back office — combining intelligent software with concierge service to automate bookkeeping, close, and financial reporting for startups and accounting firms. Our product is an AI agent that turns messy financial inputs into reviewed, posted accounting work. We're a small team putting real AI-native workflows in front of real accounting teams every day.

We're hiring a senior backend engineer to help build and strengthen the platform behind our AI agent — the systems that run agent work reliably and connect it to customers' accounting tools. This is a backend- and systems-leaning role for someone who cares about building dependable infrastructure for an AI-native product, and who's energized by reliability and correctness, not just shipping screens.

You'll join a small, high-ownership team where engineering sits close to the product. We work two-deep on every important system — no lone heroes, no undocumented black boxes — so you'll always have a partner, and we value people who document well and share what they know.

We're intentionally not asking one person to carry everything. Depending on your strengths and interests, you'll grow...

Read the full posting on Truewind's site ↗

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