Artisan AI

Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 271 days ago

TypeScriptPythonGoNode.jsDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesCI/CDTemporalAPI DevelopmentAgentic AICRMOutbound Sales

About the role

We're building AI employees.
She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, manages her own deliverability infrastructure, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking.
Right now we're building Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do.
Design and build the services and pipelines that allow Ava to process massive volumes of signals and make fast, reliable decisions.
Autonomous AI agents interacting with real people, managing real infrastructure, and making real decisions creates backend complexity that is non-trivial and growing fast.
The systems you build directly power what customers use - no layers between you and impact.
We ship weekly, iterate constantly, and expect engineers to drive outcomes.

6+ years of backend experience, ideally at a high-growth startup where you owned systems end to end
A 5x engineer who knows how to leverage Claude Code effectively
Strong opinions on reliability, observability, and testing - with good judgment on when to move fast
Clear communicator who can explain systems to engineers and product leaders alike
TypeScript/Node preferred
Python, Go, or similar is fine if fundamentals are strong

Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a company with real revenue, real traction, and a clear path to a major outcome.

Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a company with real revenue, real traction, and a clear path to a major outcome.

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