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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Humans&

humansand.ai
humansand.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · AI Research Labs · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · AI Research Labs · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Humans& is a human-centric frontier AI lab building models that understand people and help them work together.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 260 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 9%

Product Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)

$450k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
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Foundation

foundation.ai
foundation.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Residential Real Estate · PropTech · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Residential Real Estate · PropTech · Trust B · Hiring 3
Foundation is a residential real estate technology company founded by an ex-Opendoor team, whose first product is a customer experience platform for homebuilders. It aims to modernize homebuilding and the experience of buying, selling and owning homes, and hires marketing, customer success and engineering staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Open 261 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineering

≈ $150k – $278k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
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MangoDesk

mangodesk.com
mangodesk.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Hiring 2
MangoDesk is a Y Combinator-backed startup that builds data infrastructure and environments for custom evaluations and post-training data creation for AI models. The team has experience from Scale AI and Uber and recently raised a seed round, and it hires a founding engineer and a strategic projects lead. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 261 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 3%

Founding Engineer

≈ $117k – $240k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Scale AI
Post-training
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Microsoft

microsoft.com
microsoft.com · HQ: Redmond, United States · Gaming Consoles · Console Games · Developer Tools · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Office & Productivity Software · Operating Systems · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust B · Hiring 1850, 78 new
HQ: Redmond, United States · Gaming Consoles · Console Games · Developer Tools · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Office & Productivity Software · Operating Systems · 5000+ employees · Est. 1975 · Trust B · Hiring 1850, 78 new
Microsoft is an American multinational technology corporation founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It built the personal computing era around the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, and now generates the largest share of its revenue from Azure cloud infrastructure and commercial subscriptions. The company also owns GitHub, LinkedIn and the Xbox gaming business, and has invested heavily in artificial intelligence through its partnership with OpenAI and the Copilot assistants embedded across its products.
Judson Althoff · Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Business · decision-maker
Amy Hood · Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Satya Nadella · Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Paul Allen · Co-Founder · founder
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Open 261 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI (CoreAI)

$143k – $275k per year · Lead · 6+ years exp · In office (Mountain View, San Francisco, Washington, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Principal
C#
C++
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Google AI Studio
OpenAI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitHub
Azure
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Copilotkit

copilotkit.ai
copilotkit.ai · HQ: Issaquah, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: Issaquah, United States · AI Development Tools · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
The Enterprise-Ready Frontend Stack for Agents. CopilotKit lets you integrate LLMs or agents with real-time context, UI control, and full flexibility.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 265 daysVerified live · 10 min ago 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Senior Software Engineer, Partnerships & Integrations (Open-Source)

≈ $132k – $228k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 3+ years exp · Seattle · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Senior
TypeScript
Python
Python
Pydantic
AI/ML
LlamaIndex
Mastra
Agno
LangChain
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Dispatch

dispatch.me
dispatch.me · HQ: New York, United States · Field Service Management Software · 201-500 employees · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: New York, United States · Field Service Management Software · 201-500 employees · Trust B · Hiring 7
Dispatch is a braintrust of self-starters, with a laser focus on building the best field service software in the world while creating a fantastic experience for every one of our customers.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 267 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 7%

Backend Engineer

≈ $110k – $217k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Go
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Amazon S3
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Open 267 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Fullstack Engineer

≈ $112k – $221k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
Node JS
Node JS
Fastify
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
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Open 485 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

Senior Fullstack Engineer

≈ $136k – $252k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Senior · 7+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
Node JS
Fastify
Frontend
React Query
Material UI
React.js
QA
Playwright
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Reducto

reducto.ai
reducto.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Custom Software Development · AI Development Tools · Document AI · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 32
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Custom Software Development · AI Development Tools · Document AI · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 32
Reducto turns complex documents into structured data for teams building AI products. Its platform parses PDFs, scans and forms through a single model and API instead of a multi-tool pipeline, and is used by companies from startups to large enterprises. The company is based in San Francisco.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 267 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 15%

Lead Product Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Lead · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
OCR
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
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Open 304 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 10 months ago Long shot · 13%

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

$200k – $325k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Cursor
Claude Code
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
Kubernetes
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Open 337 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 11 months ago Long shot · 8%

Product Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
OCR
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
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Stable

usestable.com
usestable.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Property Management · Professional Services · Artificial Intelligence · Online Tools & Utilities · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Property Management · Professional Services · Artificial Intelligence · Online Tools & Utilities · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 6
Stable is an AI-powered virtual mailbox and business address service trusted by 15,000+ businesses. Get a permanent address, digital mail management, and registered agent.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 267 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 5%

Product Engineer

$160k – $240k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · Denver · New York · Dallas · San Francisco · Remote (United States, UTC-10 – UTC-5 hours) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Pensive AI Grader

pensive.com
pensive.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · LLM & Generative AI · Education AI · Startup · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · LLM & Generative AI · Education AI · Startup · Hiring 4
AI Grading Assistant that reduces grading time, generates rubrics, and give students timely feedback.
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Open 267 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 8 months ago Long shot · 3%

Software Engineer, Product

≈ $108k – $222k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
TanStack Router
Mobile
MVP
Firebase
DevOps
Google Cloud Run
GCP
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General Translation

generaltranslation.com
generaltranslation.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Translation Services · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Translation Services · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 1
Launch in every language. General Translation builds full-stack infrastructure for localizing apps, docs, and websites.
Archibald McKenzie · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 268 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer

≈ $151k – $326k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Japanese
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Cursor
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FERMÀT

fermatcommerce.com
fermatcommerce.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · E-commerce Marketing · Retail & Commerce AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · E-commerce Marketing · Retail & Commerce AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 2
FERMÀT is a commerce AI platform that partners with large brands to deliver dynamic, personalized shopping experiences, with customers such as GNC, Backcountry and Glossier. Its agents turn real shopper behavior into business outcomes, and the company has offices in Bengaluru and New York. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Rishabh Jain · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Shreyas Kumar · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Indranil Guha · Director
Scott Friend · Director
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Open 268 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Software Engineer

$200k – $240k per year · Senior · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Senior
AI Agents
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GitHub
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Alljoined

alljoined.com
alljoined.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · Machine Learning · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · Machine Learning · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
Alljoined is a neurotechnology startup that applies deep learning to large-scale EEG datasets to decode thoughts and perceived media from brain activity non-invasively. Founded in 2023, it hires machine learning researchers, computational neuroscientists, software engineers and research technicians. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 271 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsorship 9 months ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer

$140k – $200k per year · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Cython
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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Eight Sleep

eightsleep.com
eightsleep.com · HQ: New York, United States · Health & Medical Electronics · Smart Home Devices · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust A · Hiring 33, 4 new
HQ: New York, United States · Health & Medical Electronics · Smart Home Devices · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust A · Hiring 33, 4 new
Eight Sleep is a sleep technology company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. The company sells the Pod, a mattress cover and hardware system that heats and cools each side of a bed, tracks sleep and biometrics, and adjusts temperature automatically through the night. It sells directly to consumers in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, positioning its products around athletic recovery and sleep fitness.
Matteo Franceschetti · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Massimo Bassi · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Alexandra Zatarain · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Antonio Gracias · Director
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Open 272 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 10%

Full Stack Engineer - Customer Experience

≈ $186k – $346k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Devin
Model Context Protocol
Claude
AI Agents
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Socure

socure.com
socure.com · HQ: New York, United States · Financial AI · Fraud Detection · Identity Management · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2012 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 84, 8 new
HQ: New York, United States · Financial AI · Fraud Detection · Identity Management · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2012 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 84, 8 new
Socure is a leading digital identity verification and fraud prevention platform that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to verify consumer identities in real time. The company analyzes thousands of predictive data points - including biometrics, device intelligence, and email or phone attributes - to accurately authenticate individuals during online onboarding. By providing high accuracy rates across demographic groups, it enables financial institutions, digital healthcare providers, and online platforms to reduce fraud while streamlining user conversion.
Thomas Thimot · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Sunil Madhu · Director · decision-maker
Avi Aronovitz · Executive Officer · decision-maker
John Ayers · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 273 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 14%

Senior Software Engineer - Backend (DocV)

$180k – $200k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Scala
Java
Databases
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
OCR
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
gRPC
Rest API
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
AWS
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Open 282 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 14%

Senior Backend Engineer

$180k – $210k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
Rest API
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Open 328 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 10 months ago Long shot · 12%

Software Engineer - II

$140k – $160k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Go
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DevOps
gRPC
Rest API
CI/CD
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Bretton AI

bretton.com
bretton.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial AI · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial AI · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Bretton AI is an American software company that builds an AI platform for banks and other financial institutions, focused on financial crime compliance work such as anti-money-laundering investigations and customer due diligence. Its AI agents take on review tasks that compliance analysts would otherwise do by hand, and the company runs education sessions for bankers on adopting AI safely. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 273 daysTop 25% pay 9 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

$200k – $270k per year · Senior · 8+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
TypeScript
DevOps
Helm
Datadog
Kustomize
GitOps
Service Mesh
Progressive Delivery
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
Terraform
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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Open 279 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Product

$200k – $270k per year · Senior · 8+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
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Aquavoice

aquavoice.com
aquavoice.com · HQ: New York, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · Speech & Audio AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: New York, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · Speech & Audio AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
We've typed for 150 years. It's time to speak.. A q u a t u r n s y o u r v o i c e i n t o c l e a r t e x t i n r e a l t i m e , f o r e v e r y t h i n g f r o m A I p r o m p t s t o e s s a y s .
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Open 274 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 8%

Staff Engineer

$190k – $250k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Node JS
C#
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Django
Celery
Node JS
Electron
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Speech Recognition
PyTorch
AI Agents
DevOps
gRPC
WebSockets
Fly.io
Terraform
Windows
AWS
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Open 274 daysTop 25% pay 9 months ago Long shot · 5%

Full Stack Engineer

$130k – $210k per year · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
C#
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
Electron
AI/ML
Speech Recognition
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
WebSockets
Terraform
Windows
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EngFlow

engflow.com
engflow.com · HQ: Austin, United States · Developer Tools · DevOps & Platform Engineering · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
HQ: Austin, United States · Developer Tools · DevOps & Platform Engineering · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
Faster builds and tests, shareable build and test results, Bazel improvements: created by the Bazel experts, we deliver solutions that keep engineers in flow.
Yannic Staudt · Geschäftsführer · decision-maker
Sara Adams · Geschäftsführer · decision-maker
Ulf Adams · Geschäftsführer · decision-maker
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Open 274 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer - Build Systems, Compilers and Languages

$160k – $220k per year · New York · San Francisco · Austin · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Rust
C++
Java
Java
Maven
Gradle
C++
CMake
DevOps
gRPC
OpenShift
Unix
Linux
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Kinetic Systems

kineticsystems.ai
kineticsystems.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI for Science · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI for Science · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
Kinetic Systems is an applied AI research lab focused on improving frontier models to solve economically meaningful healthcare tasks.
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Open 275 daysVerified live · 27 min ago 9 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

≈ $194k – $362k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
JavaScript
AI/ML
Post-training
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Docker
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Cara

getcara.ai
getcara.ai · HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · InsurTech · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · InsurTech · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
Cara is a domain-specific AI system purpose-built for the insurance industry—a modular solution that empowers leading insurance agencies and brokerages to accelerate sales and automate services through a 24/7 digital workforce.
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Open 276 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer

≈ $129k – $254k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
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Vori

vori.com
vori.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Retail & Shop Systems · POS Systems · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Retail & Shop Systems · POS Systems · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11
Vori is a modern grocery POS system that connects checkout, pricing, ordering, loyalty and reporting in one platform. Built for independent grocers.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Full Stack Product Engineer - Agentic AI

≈ $132k – $259k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Function Calling
LLM
AI Agents
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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