# Backend Engineer, Generalist

At Lapel, we believe the most hospitable companies win. We're building the data, infrastructure, and tools that help customer-facing teams understand every customer and act on that insight at scale throughout the entire customer lifecycle. Most internet businesses want to treat customers well, but their tools work against them. We’re building the layer that makes every interaction feel personal again: unifying context, coordinating action, and closing the gap between intent and experience. It’s a technically ambitious challenge spanning data infrastructure, AI, and systems design - with a deeply human outcome: helping software companies serve people better. We call it hospitality at scale. We’re well-funded, backed by top-tier investors, and already working with exceptional companies, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. We’ll share more details when we talk. About This Role You'll build the APIs, services, and data systems that power Lapel's platform, as well as the things our products, integrations, and agents all depend on. This is a broad role with real architectural ownership, close collaboration with our product team and founders, and direct responsibility for the

- **Id**: 775280
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lapel-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-04T22:40:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:41:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 192
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5896
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: CRM Software, Contact Center Software

## Company

- **Id**: 679221
- **Name**: Lapel
- **Domain**: lapel.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lapel>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 153000
- **Max usd**: 284000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **Go** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes
- **Vite** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 191

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T22:45:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.227
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 191
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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