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We aim to become the underlying database and operating system for every business-critical app, from financial planning and analytics to accounting and beyond. Farseer empowers humans to build enterprise software with the help of AI.\nOver the next decade, we will rebuild the enterprise nervous system. We are starting with finance, a real-time collaborative planning and reporting platform that turns finance teams into proactive strategists. Once that foundation is solid, the same AI-native core will extend across the operational stack, reporting, supply chain management, manufacturing, procurement, revenue ops, and more.\nOur mission is to build enterprise software that people enjoy using. No user-hostile screens. No bloated workflows. Just fast, intuitive tools that help teams solve real business problems.\nWhat you'll do\nCore Product builds the product itself - everything users see, touch, and rely on every day.\nThat includes sheets, variables, dimensions, scenarios, modeling logic, planning workflows, collaboration, dashboards, and the backend systems that make all of it feel fast, reliable, and coherent.\nThe technical surface area is broad, and the constraints are real: models with millions of cells, real-time recalculation across deep dependency graphs, multi-user editing on the same surface, enterprise-grade permissions and audit logs - all fast enough that finance teams choose to work in Farseer instead of going back to Excel.\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer on Core Product, you'll work on the systems behind that. You'd be joining a small team of senior engineers across backend and frontend.\nYou'll:\nDesign and build backend systems for the modeling layer - sheets, variables, dimensions, scenarios, formulas\n\nBuild the planning workflows customers run their business on - assignments, approvals, locks, scheduled processes\n\nWork on collaboration infrastructure: audit logs, comments, permissions, multi-user editing\n\nMake core product interactions fast, reliable, and predictable - especially when users work with large models and complex dependencies\n\nDesign APIs that work cleanly for the frontend, for integrations, and for customer-built apps\n\nThink through scale, permissions, edge cases, and migrations as part of how you ship - not after\n\nAnd one more thing - Core Product Engineers who develop broad product judgment here tend to go on to lead new specialized teams as the company grows.\nWhat we're looking for\nYou don't need to know our stack by heart. You need to think like a senior engineer - which means clear judgment, real ownership, and the ability to make sound calls when the right answer isn't obvious.\nYou are a good fit if you:\nHave shipped production backend systems at a meaningful scale. Stack doesn't matter as much as judgment - proficient in at least one modern language, ready to pick up whatever the job needs\n\nCan design systems that handle real complexity: permissions, multi-tenancy, audit, concurrency, performance under load\n\nKnow how to make tradeoffs between scope, complexity, and speed without being told\n\nAre comfortable working in an interconnected codebase where the right move is sometimes to delete or unify, not add\n\nUse AI tools to move faster - code generation, debugging, prototyping\n\nNice to have\nExperience with planning, modeling, or analytical products - anything where the data model has real structural depth\n\nExperience working with C++ or other systems-level code through bindings\n\nFamiliarity with FP&A, accounting, or other finance workflows - not required, but it shortens the ramp\n\nExperience in environments where product surface area is large relative to team size, and reducing surface area is part of the job\n\nA note about the role\nFarseer is an enterprise product with real customers, real complexity, and a small senior team building it. 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