Senior Backend Engineer, dealops

About Dealops

Dealops is building the AI-powered revenue optimization and deal pricing platform that modern sales teams rely on to configure quote and approve deals with speed and precision. Today 66% of pricing workflows happen in spreadsheets costing enterprises millions in lost revenue. Were fixing this.

Backed by $7M from General Catalyst Pear VC and operators from Stripe OpenAI and Slack weve closed 5- and 6-figure contracts with companies like Plaid and Harvey just 75 days into launch. Were a 7-person team led by ex-Stripe operators building the GTM Intelligence Platform of the future.

The Role: Senior Backend Engineer

Were looking for an experienced backend engineer to architect and scale the core systems behind the next-generation deal pricing platform. Youll own critical backend components including workflow orchestration pricing engines AI agent integration and high-accuracy data infrastructure.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity values correctness and enjoys shaping deep technical foundations at an early-stage company.

What Youll Build

Architect core backend systems powering deal pricing modeling approvals and workflow automation.

Build scalable services in TypeScript/Node PostgreSQL to support complex quoting logic multi-step approval workflows and real-time decisioning.

Design and extend the workflow engine used by Sales & Finance teams across different customers with highly customizable conditions.

Work closely with Vinay (CTO) to define the long-term systems roadmap across integrations agents ingestion systems and reliability.

Integrate and productionize AI Agents to blend deterministic systems with intelligent automation.

Build admin tooling that leverages natural language and LLMs to reduce onboarding configuration time by 10x.

Own the full lifecycle of features: design architecture review implementation reliability.

Must Haves

5 years backend engineering experience

Strong proficiency with TypeScript

Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL or similar)

Experience building complex backend systems with high reliability requirements

History of launching early-stage products end-to-end

Comfortable working closely with customers solving deeply technical product problems

Nice to Haves

Experience with Express NestJS or similar frameworks

Experience with event-driven systems or workflow engines

Knowledge of AI agents RAG evaluation models or production ML

Experience designing internal tooling for high-accuracy workflows

Experience as a tech lead founding engineer or working on a lean team

What excites you

Tackle Complex High-Impact Challenges Transforming pricing from an art to a science is a technically complex high-stakes problem with tons of room for technical innovation and creative problem-solving. What we are building is complex but you thrive in developing elegant solutions to complex problems. You want to break ground in creating highly grounded AI systems that dont hallucinate and provide high degree of accuracy while making sales flows 10x faster.

High Ownership & Influence As an early engineer youll own large pieces of the product and infrastructure from day one. Your work will have a direct and visible impact shaping both our tech stack and broader product vision. Youll also have many opportunities to make highly strategic decisions not just in development but also in defining how pricing software evolves. You enjoy being an owner and are high agency with an bias for action.

Fast-Paced Career Growth & Leadership Opportunities Working in a startup means real accelerated career growth. Whether you want to step into a tech lead role drive product innovation or architect major projects youll be in a prime position to take on leadership as we scale.

Shape Company Culture As an early hire you wont just build the productyoull help define how we work together and what our company values become. This is an opportunity to create something truly special both technically and culturally.

What we offer

Competitive salary early stage equity

Medical dental vision

Unlimited PTO (really)

Daily team lunch & snacks

Required Experience:

Senior IC