Software Engineer, Marketplace
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Location: San Francisco CA
Company Stage of Funding: Series C (Profitable $10B Valuation)
Office Type: Onsite (5 Days/Week)
Salary: $130000 $400000 Equity Performance Bonus
Company Description
Our client is one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies building the marketplace that connects world-class experts with the leading AI labs and enterprises developing frontier AI systems. Their platform enables organizations to source evaluate and deploy specialized talent at scale powering the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Now a profitable Series C company with significant growth and global operations they are scaling the engineering organization to build the infrastructure that powers one of the largest expert marketplaces in AI.
What You Will Do
- Design and build backend services that power marketplace matching routing and fulfillment
- Develop scalable APIs supporting search eligibility scoring allocation and workflow automation
- Build high-performance distributed systems capable of processing large volumes of real-time decisions
- Design robust data models and abstractions for a rapidly evolving two-sided marketplace
- Develop infrastructure supporting asynchronous workflows event processing and operational automation
- Improve reliability latency scalability and observability of critical production systems
- Partner closely with Product Operations AI and Infrastructure teams to deliver new platform capabilities
- Build reusable backend architecture that enables rapid product iteration without sacrificing quality
Ideal Background
- 3 years of backend software engineering experience
- Strong experience designing and operating production backend systems
- Experience building distributed systems high-throughput APIs or infrastructure platforms
- Strong systems design data modeling and performance optimization skills
- Experience with Python Go Java or similar backend languages
- Strong understanding of databases caching queues and asynchronous architectures
- Excellent communication and ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Comfortable working in fast-moving high-growth environments
Preferred
- Experience with marketplace recommendation matching scheduling or search systems
- Experience supporting AI/ML-powered products or model inference infrastructure
- Experience with Kafka Redis Elasticsearch Kubernetes or Terraform
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging systems
- Experience building internal developer platforms or workflow engines
- Startup or hypergrowth company experience
- Strong ownership mentality with bias toward simple maintainable system design
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive base salary: $130000 $400000
- Generous equity package
- Bi-annual performance bonuses
- Relocation assistance available
- Housing stipend for employees living near the office
- Monthly meal wellness and lifestyle stipends
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
- Opportunity to build core infrastructure at one of the worlds fastest-growing AI companies
This is an exceptional opportunity for backend engineers who enjoy distributed systems marketplace infrastructure and large-scale platform engineering while working on products that directly power the AI economy.
Required Experience:
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