Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco

Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $272,233/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Plaid

plaid.com
plaid.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 128, 9 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 128, 9 new
Plaid Inc. is a financial technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2013. The company develops a data transfer network and application programming interfaces that allow consumers to securely connect their bank accounts to financial applications and services. It operates globally across North America and Europe, serving over 12,000 financial institutions and powering thousands of digital finance tools for millions of users.
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Staff Software Engineer - AI & Intelligent Tooling

$208k – $340k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
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Senior Software Engineer - Product Security

$204k – $281k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Terraform
Kubernetes
CI/CD
AWS
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Staff Software Engineer - Data Governance

$208k – $274k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Go
Java
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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Syntro Inc.

usesyntro.com
usesyntro.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Procurement & Spend Management · Likely startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Procurement & Spend Management · Likely startup · Hiring 3
AI-powered procurement platform for hardware teams. Automate supplier management, RFQ tracking, and supply chain operations with intelligent procurement agents.
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Product Engineer

$140k – $220k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
VMWare
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Founding Engineer

$140k – $220k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
VMWare
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Slash Financial

slashfinancial.com
slashfinancial.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cards & Card Issuing · Digital Banks & Neobanks · Est. 2020 · Likely startup · Trust A · Hiring 15
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cards & Card Issuing · Digital Banks & Neobanks · Est. 2020 · Likely startup · Trust A · Hiring 15
Slash Financial is an American fintech company that offers business banking accounts, corporate cards and payment tools. Its customers include startups, e-commerce brands, marketing agencies and crypto companies, which use it for spending controls, virtual cards, domestic and cross-border transfers and stablecoin payments. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Software Engineer, Security

$250k – $350k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Databases
CockroachDB
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Cloudflare
AWS
Pulumi
Amazon EKS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
AWS WAF
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Software Engineer, Stablecoin

$200k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time
Account Abstraction
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Product

$250k – $350k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
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Verana Health

veranahealth.com
veranahealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Health Data & Interoperability · 201-500 employees · Est. 2016 · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Health Data & Interoperability · 201-500 employees · Est. 2016 · Hiring 6
Verana Health turns clinical data from medical specialty societies into research-grade real-world evidence. It holds exclusive partnerships with registries in ophthalmology, neurology and urology covering tens of millions of patients. Life sciences companies use the data for trials, safety studies and regulatory submissions.
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Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid - New York City or San Francisco)

$150k – $187k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Senior
Java
Python
JavaScript
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
WebSockets
Amazon CloudWatch
Jenkins
Rest API
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
AWS
Cybersecurity
OWASP
Management
Scrum
Agile
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Overland AI

overland.ai
overland.ai · HQ: Seattle, United States · Military Robotics · Defense AI · Autonomous Driving · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 45, 2 new
HQ: Seattle, United States · Military Robotics · Defense AI · Autonomous Driving · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 45, 2 new
Overland AI is a defense technology company that develops off-road autonomy software and autonomous ground vehicles for military use, built to operate cross-country without roads or GPS. Founded in 2022 with roots in University of Washington robotics research, it supplies its autonomy stack and ULTRA vehicles to United States Army and Marine Corps programs and tests in Ellensburg, Washington. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy

$150k – $250k per year · Equity · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Nationals only · Junior
Python
AI/ML
Cursor
LLM
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
ROS
MAVLink
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Coworker

coworker.ai
coworker.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Intranet & Knowledge Management · AI Agents · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Intranet & Knowledge Management · AI Agents · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Coworker AI is the enterprise AI agent platform. Chat, cowork, and code with the right model for every task, your full company context, and 50+ connectors. Same frontier AI quality at a fraction of the cost.
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Principal Software Engineer

$220k – $280k per year · Equity · Lead · 10+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Principal
TypeScript
Python
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Senior Software Engineer

$160k – $200k per year · Equity · Senior · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
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Samba

samba.com
samba.com · HQ: Warsaw, Poland · Market Research · Media & Audience Measurement · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 44
HQ: Warsaw, Poland · Market Research · Media & Audience Measurement · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 44
The Global Leaderin Media Intelligence. See what audiences actually do. Explore the world's trends in real time.
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Fullstack Software Engineer

$182k – $246k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Structured Outputs
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
Vite
tRPC
pnpm
Remix
TanStack Start
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Git
Rest API
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Cybersecurity
Auth0
QA
Sentry
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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

$182k – $246k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Databases
Firestore
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
Amazon S3
Rest API
GCP
AWS
Cybersecurity
Auth0
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AI Product Engineer

$200k – $250k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Function Calling
Gemini
Context Engineering
Multi-Agent Systems
Cursor
Prompt Engineering
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI
Claude Code
Claude
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Samba TV

samba.tv
samba.tv · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Advertising · Media & Audience Measurement · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2008 · Trust A · Hiring 55
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Advertising · Media & Audience Measurement · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2008 · Trust A · Hiring 55
Samba TV measures television viewing through software embedded in smart TVs from major manufacturers. Advertisers use the resulting panel to see which households saw a campaign and to target follow-up advertising on other devices. The company operates across dozens of countries and publishes regular viewership research.
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Full Stack Engineer

$160k – $200k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
GraphQL
Next.js
Vite
tRPC
pnpm
Remix
TanStack Start
DevOps
WebSockets
Git
Rest API
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Cybersecurity
Auth0
QA
Sentry
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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

$160k – $200k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Databases
Firestore
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
Amazon S3
Rest API
GCP
AWS
Cybersecurity
Auth0
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AI Product Engineer

$150k – $200k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Function Calling
Gemini
Context Engineering
Multi-Agent Systems
Cursor
Prompt Engineering
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI
Claude Code
Claude
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Origamics

origamics.ai
origamics.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Motors, Drives & Motion Control · Machine Learning · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Motors, Drives & Motion Control · Machine Learning · Hiring 2
General-purpose AI doesn't understand how signals and fields behave on a board. We built our own models to do exactly that.
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Founding Engineer

≈ $149k – $321k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Full-Time
Multi-Agent Systems
AI Agents
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Arceus

arceus.legal
arceus.legal · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Legal AI · Legal Services · 201-500 employees · Startup · Hiring 10
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Legal AI · Legal Services · 201-500 employees · Startup · Hiring 10
Arceus is a modern law firm redefining the future of law for fast-growing companies. Our licensed attorneys, supported by AI, deliver contract review, negotiation, and drafting in hours — priced upfront and never billed by the hour.
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Founding Product Engineer

$140k – $180k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
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Headway

headway.co
headway.co · HQ: New York, United States · Psychotherapy & Counseling · Digital Mental Health · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2019 · Trust B · Hiring 95, 8 new
HQ: New York, United States · Psychotherapy & Counseling · Digital Mental Health · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2019 · Trust B · Hiring 95, 8 new
Headway is an American mental health company that operates a platform helping therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists in private practice accept commercial insurance and Medicare, handling credentialing, billing and payments for them. Patients use it to find in-network providers for therapy and medication management at insurance rates. Founded in 2019, it has built a network of tens of thousands of clinicians across the United States. The company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
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Staff Software Engineer (Journeys)

$265k – $331k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · New York · San Francisco · Seattle · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
Databases
Redis
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Recommender Systems
Spark
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
Remix
React.js
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Datadog
PagerDuty
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GitHub
AWS
Cybersecurity
Snyk
Semgrep
Lacework
Analytics
A/B Testing
QA
Sentry
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Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation

$265k – $331k per year · Equity · Staff+ · New York · San Francisco · Seattle · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
Databases
Redis
Snowflake
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Spark
dbt
Frontend
Remix
React.js
DevOps
Datadog
PagerDuty
Cloudflare
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GitHub
AWS
QA
Sentry
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

$183k – $279k per year · Equity · Senior · In office (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Redis
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Spark
Cursor
Claude
DevOps
Datadog
PagerDuty
AWS
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Stuut

stuut.ai
stuut.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · ERP & Business Management Software · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 23, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · ERP & Business Management Software · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 23, 4 new
Stuut automates your entire order-to-cash process. Collect 40% more revenue with AI agents that actually do the work. Live and collecting cash in days.
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Member of the Technical Staff — Applied AI, Fullstack

$185k – $250k per year · Equity · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
AI Agents
Pydantic AI
Structured Outputs
LLM Guardrails
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Verse

verse.com
verse.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Video Production · Generative Video · Est. 2022 · Startup · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Video Production · Generative Video · Est. 2022 · Startup · Hiring 8
Create immersive interactive content with your videos. Enhance and enrich your story with elegant tools that empower audiences to truly engage.
Open 91 daysTop 25% pay 3 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Product Experience (Energy Storage)

$150k – $240k per year · Equity · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree
Go
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
Storybook
Apache ECharts
shadcn/ui
React.js
Radix UI
DevOps
Cloudflare
gRPC
Amazon S3
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Auth0
QA
Cypress
Playwright
Jest
Vitest
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Open 91 daysTop 25% pay 3 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

$150k – $240k per year · Equity · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree
Go
Python
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
C++
Protobuf
DevOps
gRPC
GCP
Kubernetes
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Open 91 daysTop 25% pay 3 months ago Long shot · 11%

Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Telemetry & Control (Rust)

$150k – $240k per year · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
Rust
C++
Python
Databases
SQLite
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
DevOps
Wi-Fi
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
IoT
Zigbee
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Metriport

metriport.com
metriport.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Health Data & Interoperability · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 18
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Health Data & Interoperability · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 18
Metriport is a health data infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2022. The company provides an open source API that retrieves and normalises patient medical records from health information exchanges, electronic health record systems, and consumer wearables into a single format. It sells to digital health companies, providers, and payers that need patient history without building separate integrations for each data source.
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Senior Software Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Databases
DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Amazon SageMaker
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
CI/CD
AWS
MedTech
HL7
FHIR
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Staff Software Engineer

$200k – $260k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Databases
DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Amazon SageMaker
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
CI/CD
AWS
MedTech
HL7
FHIR
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interface.ai

interface.ai
interface.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 25
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 25
Turn every interaction into revenue, not just resolution.. AI that answers is table stakes. Ours completes the transaction on your core and turns every service moment into growth.
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Software Engineer II

$170k – $215k per year · Middle · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Middle
LLM Evaluation
Claude
AI Agents
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Senior Software Engineer

$230k – $250k per year · Senior · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Cursor
Prompt Engineering
Claude Code
Claude
LLM
AI Agents
NLP
DevOps
Platform Engineering
GCP
AWS
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Staff Software Engineer

$260k – $310k per year · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Cursor
Claude Code
Claude
LLM
AI Agents
NLP
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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Bstock

bstock.com
bstock.com · HQ: Boston, United States · Auctions · Secondhand · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 16, 1 new
HQ: Boston, United States · Auctions · Secondhand · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 16, 1 new
B-Stock - Learn about our mission, our values and meet the Management Team. Join our growing team to help us continue our explosive growth.
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Senior Software Engineer (AI-Native)

$145k – $175k per year · Senior · 7+ years exp · Hybrid (Boston, San Mateo, San Francisco, United States) · Senior
Ruby
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Copilot
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
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Faire

faire.com
faire.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Wholesale · Marketplaces · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2017 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 61, 5 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Wholesale · Marketplaces · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2017 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 61, 5 new
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace headquartered in San Francisco, California, that connects independent retailers with brands and uses data and machine learning to help shop owners discover and stock products. Founded in 2017, it lets retailers order in small quantities with net-60 payment terms and free returns on first orders, and it serves hundreds of thousands of retailers across North America and Europe. It hires software engineers, applied AI and machine learning scientists, product analytics engineers, product managers and marketers, strategy and finance leads, GTM systems engineers, account executives and bilingual sales development representatives.
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Staff Engineer - Experimentation Platform

$231k – $318k per year · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Staff
SQL
Kotlin
Python
Databases
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Spark
DevOps
Progressive Delivery
AWS
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Julius

julius.ai
julius.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Spreadsheets & Reporting Automation · AI Data Analysts & Text-to-SQL · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Spreadsheets & Reporting Automation · AI Data Analysts & Text-to-SQL · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
AI for your workplace tasks. Use Julius AI to handle Excel files, create slide decks, and cut down the time it takes to get your work done.
Open 94 daysTop 25% pay 3 months ago Long shot · 11%

Software Engineer - Product (Mid to Senior)

$150k – $200k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
JavaScript
AI/ML
Function Calling
Perplexity
Replit
Scale AI
OpenAI
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Management
Notion
Zapier
Intercom
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Open 172 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago Long shot · 9%

Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Mid - Senior)

$150k – $200k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Perplexity
Replit
DevOps
Helm
OpenTelemetry
Vercel
containerd
SLI/SLO/SLA
Prometheus
Grafana
Terraform
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
Cilium
KEDA
Knative
Karpenter
eBPF
Management
Notion
Zapier
Intercom
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Open 172 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer - Product (New Grad)

$130k – $150k per year · Junior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Function Calling
Perplexity
Replit
Scale AI
OpenAI
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Management
Notion
Zapier
Intercom
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Cognition

cognition.ai
cognition.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · Code Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 101, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · Code Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 101, 4 new
Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab founded in 2023 that created Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent able to plan, write and debug code across a full repository. The company drew attention for demonstrating long-horizon coding work rather than single-file completion, and it sells Devin to engineering organisations. In 2025 it acquired the Windsurf coding assistant team and product, broadening its developer tooling.
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Product Engineer

≈ $152k – $327k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
Function Calling
Devin
Scale AI
Cursor
AI Agents
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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

$260k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Devin
Scale AI
Cursor
Windsurf
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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Software Engineer

≈ $150k – $324k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Windsurf
Function Calling
Devin
Scale AI
Cursor
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Ketch

ketch.com
ketch.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Data Governance & Catalogs · Security Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Data Governance & Catalogs · Security Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 4
Ketch is a data privacy software company that provides an enterprise platform for consent management, data subject access requests, data mapping and privacy assessments. Its tools help businesses comply with GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws and govern how customer data is used in marketing and AI systems. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Backend Software Engineer

$100k – $130k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
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