Senior Backend Engineer
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Senior Backend Engineer building AI-native learning tools for simpleclub, an education platform used by millions of students. Owning backend architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and LLM integrations.
Responsibilities:
- Own backend features for AI-powered educator tools across architecture, implementation, deployment, and observability
- Design and build data ingestion and transformation pipelines, including event sourcing, stream processing, aggregation layers, and real-time and batch analytics
- Build and evolve APIs serving learning insights and AI-generated content
- Integrate LLM capabilities through orchestration, structured output parsing, RAG, caching, and model-call cost control
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex for scaffolding, test generation, and first-pass implementations, then review and own the output
- Write specifications, ADRs, and context documentation
- Ship features with Flutter engineers, product managers, and designers
- Automate repetitive engineering work through CI checks, code review triage, documentation generation, and migration scripts
- Directly shape AI-powered tools that help trainers and educators work smarter and faster
Requirements:
- 7+ years of backend development on production systems
- Strong Node.js and TypeScript fundamentals
- Strong GCP fundamentals, including Firestore, BigQuery, Spanner, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub
- Experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases
- Ability to reason about data modeling trade-offs, consistency guarantees, and query performance
- Daily use of AI coding tools
- Systems thinking focused on failure modes, scalability, and data consistency
- Clear, async-first written communication
- English is the working language
- Nice to have: production LLM experience, ed-tech or learning analytics background, event-driven architectures and stream processing, Terraform and CI/CD ownership, product-trio experience, and hands-on Spanner experience
Benefits:
- Unlimited paid holidays
- Work from anywhere
- Team events
- A great culture
- Perk Budget
- Join a purposeful mission
- Salary reviewed at least once a year
- Salary bands designed to ensure fair treatment
- Equality, inclusion, and diversity environment
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