Senior Backend Platform Engineer

🕒 June 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Conversica

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201 - 500 employees

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $25M Series E on 2022-04

Marketing • Consulting • Artificial Intelligence

Conversica is a leading provider of Conversation Automation solutions, utilizing advanced AI-powered digital assistants to engage in two-way dialog and drive revenue opportunities across marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Their platform leverages natural language processing and large language models, including GPT, to simulate human-like conversations, helping to identify and nurture leads, reactivate opportunities, and maintain customer relationships. Conversica integrates seamlessly into existing technology stacks, allowing businesses to scale their efforts and unlock hidden revenue across multiple industries.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end delivery of significant backend platform components, taking work from design through production within an established architectural direction • Lead implementation in a focused domain such as integrations, messaging infrastructure, data ingestion, or one of the core platform services • Make day-to-day technical decisions within your domain on data modeling, API design, error handling, and operational concerns, partnering with the Staff Engineer and tech leads on broader architectural calls • Partner closely with AI Engineering and Product to translate evolving requirements into reliable, well-tested software • Drive reliability, performance, and observability improvements in the systems you own; respond to production issues and lead the fix • Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on your team through code review, pairing, and design feedback; raise the bar on engineering craft within the team • Contribute to platform-wide design discussions and influence the standards you operate under

🎯 Requirements

• Equivalent of 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on backend platform, integrations, or data infrastructure work • Track record of owning and delivering significant backend features or components in production, from design through operation • Proven experience deploying and operating production backend systems at scale • Strong proficiency in Python, including production experience with FastAPI, Celery, and similar async/queue-based frameworks • Deep experience with Postgres including schema design, query optimization, and operating Postgres in production • Experience working with large datasets and navigating real-world data quality challenges across heterogeneous source systems • Experience designing and operating integrations with third-party SaaS systems including handling rate limits, schema drift, and partial failures • Strong background in modern cloud-based architectures, particularly AWS • Active use of modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or similar) as part of your development workflow

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits • PTO • Holiday pay • 401(k) • Equity