# Senior Backend Engineer

About Blue: Blue is building a new kind of phone, with your chief of staff built in. Blue sees what you do and reads every notification, text, and email for you. Based on everything it’s learned about you, it decides what to do with each one: handle it and leave you an FYI, or draft a reply and wait for your OK. And anything else in your life is one button away from being off your plate. It works from day one. When you switch, Blue reads everything that comes over from your iPhone, so it already knows the people in your life, how you write, and the passwords, cards, and IDs it needs, kept in a secure vault you both share. No onboarding, and no explaining yourself. Delegation this deep isn’t possible from an app. It takes owning the operating system and, ultimately, the hardware. Today the Blue OS runs on Google Pixel hardware while our own hardware is in development. We’re Y Combinator-backed, seed-funded, and our first customers already use it as their daily phone. The role You will own the servers behind every Blue phone: the assistant's backend, messaging, the password vault, iPhone migration, and the infrastructure they run on. You will set the bar for how we review, deploy and

- **Id**: 3773014
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/blue-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T22:14:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:52:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3949
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketing Automation, Conversational AI, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 23310
- **Name**: Blue
- **Domain**: blue.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/blue>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 340000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 340000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Firebase** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **Twilio** — Optional: yes
- **WebSockets** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T22:14:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 340000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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