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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Inkeep

inkeep.com
inkeep.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Customer Support & Help Desk Software · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Customer Support & Help Desk Software · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Inkeep builds AI agents for customer support and operations that answer from a company's own documentation and product data. Engineering and support teams configure the agents together, with visibility into what each answer was based on. It is widely used by developer tool companies for docs search and ticket deflection.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 351 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 11 months ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff, TypeScript Engineer (Senior)

≈ $172k – $321k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 3+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
AI/ML
Midjourney
Anthropic
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
RAG
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Open 431 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff, TypeScript Engineer (Principal)

$180k – $250k per year · Lead · 4+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Principal
TypeScript
AI/ML
Midjourney
Anthropic
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
RAG
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Espa Labs

espa.ai
espa.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Office & Productivity Software · Likely startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Office & Productivity Software · Likely startup · Hiring 2
Espa Labs is an early-stage AI startup building an AI-native productivity assistant that handles email, calendars, contacts and tasks. It is backed by venture capital firms including Village Global, Neo and SV Angel, and hires a founding software engineer and engineering interns. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 352 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 11 months ago Long shot · 6%

Founding Software Engineer

≈ $156k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LlamaIndex
Embeddings
LangChain
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Anthropic
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Firetiger

firetiger.com
firetiger.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Observability & APM · 1-10 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Observability & APM · 1-10 employees · Est. 2024 · Trust B · Hiring 4
Firetiger attaches a monitor to every pull request and watches the rollout across staging, canary, and production, returning one verdict per deploy: verified, regression detected, or inconclusive.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 359 daysTop 25% pay 11 months ago Long shot · 3%

Product Engineer — Intern/Co-op

$120k per year · Intern · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Internship · Intern
FastAI
Anthropic
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
PyTorch
DevOps
Datadog
Cloudflare
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Open 359 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 11 months ago Long shot · 2%

Product Engineer — New Grad

$120k per year · Junior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
FastAI
Anthropic
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
PyTorch
DevOps
Datadog
Cloudflare
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Open 359 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 11 months ago Long shot · 10%

Product Engineer

$170k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
FastAI
Anthropic
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
PyTorch
DevOps
Datadog
Cloudflare
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Bunkerhill Health

bunkerhillhealth.com
bunkerhillhealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 7
Build, deploy, and scale AI agents for clinical and administrative work. The platform leading health systems run on.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 362 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago Long shot · 4%

AI Product Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Junior · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
Django
Celery
AI/ML
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Helm
Kustomize
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
AWS
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Magicpatterns

magicpatterns.com
magicpatterns.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Design & Prototyping Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Design & Prototyping Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
AI design tool to turn prompts into production-ready UI. Use your design system, generate prototypes fast, and collaborate.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 365 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Product Engineer

≈ $143k – $308k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
AI Agents
Design
Figma
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Air Apps

airapps.co
airapps.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · Office & Productivity Software · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2017 · Trust A · Hiring 424
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · Office & Productivity Software · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2017 · Trust A · Hiring 424
Founded in 2017, Air Apps is a prominent mobile software developer specializing in AI-driven utility, productivity, and personal management applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, the enterprise operates a remote-first global team that designs and manages a broad portfolio of digital tools. Through its bundled subscription model and suite of user-friendly mobile solutions, it provides millions of consumers worldwide with streamlined options for daily organization, translation, and task automation.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 1 min ago 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Backend Engineer

$80k – $160k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Python
Django
Java
Spring Boot
Node JS
Express
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Likely inactiveTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Software Architect - Mobile

$145k – $255k per year · Staff+ · 6+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Architect
Kotlin
Swift
Objective-C
Java
Mobile
UIKit
SwiftUI
Combine
MVVM
VIPER
Offline-First
Modularization
DevOps
CI/CD
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Likely inactiveTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Software Architect

$145k – $260k per year · Staff+ · 6+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Architect
Node JS
Java
SQL
Python
C#
TypeScript
JavaScript
C#
.NET
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
CloudFormation
Terraform
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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idler

idler.ai
idler.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Reinforcement Learning · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Reinforcement Learning · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 6
Push the frontier of your model. Reinforcement learning environments built from real production work.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 379 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Software Engineer

$125k – $400k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Junior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
GRPO
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
Vercel
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Giga

giga.ai
giga.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Speech & Audio AI · Artificial Intelligence · Contact Center Software · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 32, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Speech & Audio AI · Artificial Intelligence · Contact Center Software · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 32, 1 new
Giga, formerly GigaML, is an artificial intelligence company that builds voice and chat agents for enterprise customer support. Its agents handle large volumes of phone and messaging conversations for consumer and logistics businesses, integrating with existing support tools and escalating to human staff when needed, and it is backed by venture investors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Likely inactiveTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Senior Backend Engineer

$200k – $350k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
FastAPI
Django
Databases
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Hallucination
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
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Likely inactiveTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Staff Backend Engineer

$290k – $400k per year · Staff+ · 7+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
FastAPI
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Kubernetes
AWS
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Alleviate Health

alleviatehealth.care
alleviatehealth.care · HQ: Fayetteville, United States · AI Agents · Clinical Trial Software · 1-10 employees · Est. 1987 · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: Fayetteville, United States · AI Agents · Clinical Trial Software · 1-10 employees · Est. 1987 · Trust B · Hiring 7
The AI Recruiter for Clinical Research.. Human-in-the-loop AI workflows to help your team to make more powerful connections with participants while saving thousands of hours.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 380 daysVerified live · 24 min ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Founding Product Engineer

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

orchestra.bio
orchestra.bio · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Orchestra helps R&D organizations unify planning, automate operations, and reduce the risks that derail breakthrough science.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 384 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

Senior Fullstack Engineer

≈ $153k – $285k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frontend
React.js
Life Sciences
Benchling
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Open 449 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

Senior Backend Engineer

≈ $152k – $283k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Node JS
JavaScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Haystack
Anthropic
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
RAG
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Life Sciences
Benchling
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Strella

strella.io
strella.io · HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · Market Research · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 12, 5 new
HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · Market Research · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 12, 5 new
Get customer insights 10x faster with Strella. AI-moderated interviews and real-time synthesis turn customer research from weeks into hours.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 384 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Full Stack Software Engineer

≈ $126k – $247k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Rest API
GCP
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Achira

achira.ai
achira.ai · HQ: New York, United States · AI for Science · Drug Discovery · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: New York, United States · AI for Science · Drug Discovery · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Who we are. 2026-06-23 : [BIO2026] Achira Works With NVIDIA to Advance Molecular World Models for Agentic Discovery.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 386 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

SWE - Distributed

$165k – $259k per year · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
JAX
Ray
TPU
World Models
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
DevOps
SLURM
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
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Moonlake AI

moonlakeai.com
moonlakeai.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative 3D · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative 3D · Foundation Models · 201-500 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
Moonlake AI is a frontier AI lab building interactive world models and simulation infrastructure for physical AI, embodied AI, robotics and gaming. Its systems generate, simulate and reason over 3D environments, and the company hires members of technical staff for model training, simulation and product engineering. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 397 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff - Product Engineer

≈ $193k – $360k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
OpenAI Codex
World Models
Embodied AI
Claude Code
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
Next.js
shadcn/ui
React.js
Radix UI
Robotics
Digital Twin
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Design
Blender
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Bluenote

bluenote.ai
bluenote.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Testing, Inspection & Certification · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Testing, Inspection & Certification · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
Bluenote. Accelerate regulatory submissions by 50-75% with advanced AI for life sciences. Trusted by the industry's largest pharma, medical devices, diagnostics, CROs and CDMOs.
Geoffrey Eich · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andrew Firlik · Director
John Harris · Director
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Open 398 daysVerified live · 8 min ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Platform

≈ $155k – $288k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
LLMOps
RAG
DevOps
Platform Engineering
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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Open 398 daysVerified live · 8 min ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Agent

≈ $156k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
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Gamut

gamut.so
gamut.so · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2016 · Trust B · Hiring 8
Build and run personal AI agents that work autonomously in the background — handling research, scheduling, and busywork so you can focus on what matters.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 399 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

Founding Engineer - Full Stack

$50k – $500k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
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Merge

merge.dev
merge.dev · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Integration & API Management · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 14, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Integration & API Management · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 14, 1 new
Merge offers a single API that normalises integrations with hundreds of HR, accounting, CRM and ticketing systems. A software company builds once against Merge instead of maintaining separate connectors for each customer's stack. The product includes syncing, field mapping and monitoring of the underlying integrations.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 399 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

Sr./Staff Engineer, Agent Handler

$200k – $245k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 7+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
Python
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
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Open 467 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Software Engineer

$190k – $235k per year · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
TypeScript
SQL
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
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Nudge

nudge.com
nudge.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 19, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 19, 1 new
Our Mission, Technology, and Approach April 7, 2025 At Nudge, our mission is to develop the best technology for interfacing with the brain to improve people's lives.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Software Engineer

≈ $144k – $311k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
DevOps
Terraform
Kubernetes
AWS
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Intology

intology.ai
intology.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Research Labs · Machine Learning · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Likely startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Research Labs · Machine Learning · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Likely startup · Hiring 2
Automated AI R&D for LLM Training Drug Discovery LLM Training Drug Discovery Genomics Materials Science Scientific Discovery Quantitative Trading Search & Recommendation Risk & Forecasting All. LLM Training Drug Discovery.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 407 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Software Engineer

≈ $146k – $315k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Google GKE
GCP
Kubernetes
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Tolan

tolans.com
tolans.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Tolan is building personal AI that helps people think, reflect and take action in their real lives, delivered as a friendly AI guide in an iOS app. Its team previously founded Even, which was acquired in 2022, and the company hires iOS, backend, gameplay and agent engineers and designers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 408 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Backend Product Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
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Padlet

padlet.com
padlet.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Team Communication & Collaboration · Est. 2008 · Trust C · Hiring 17, 3 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Team Communication & Collaboration · Est. 2008 · Trust C · Hiring 17, 3 new
Padlet is a digital canvas where people post notes, images, links and video onto a shared board. Teachers use it heavily for classroom collaboration, but it is also used for planning and brainstorming at work. The product is known for a simple interface that needs no training.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Software Engineer – Mobile

≈ $134k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Ruby
Swift
Elixir
TypeScript
Java
JavaScript
Python
Databases
Firestore
ElasticSearch
Redis
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Wi-Fi
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Software Engineer – Frontend / Backend / Fullstack

≈ $134k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Ruby
Swift
Elixir
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Databases
Firestore
ElasticSearch
Redis
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Vue.js
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Wi-Fi
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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