Staff Backend Engineer - Commerce

Together AI

San Francisco, United States
$230,000 - $270,000; equity; health insurance + ot...
On-site
Large-scale, fault-tolerant api-driven services
System design and long-term architecture
Relational database schemas and backend apis
As a staff engineer on the Commerce Engineering team, you will set the engineering direction for mission-critical capabilities — including usage-based billing, payment processing, customer-facing analytics, and product entitlements — while raising the bar for the engineers around you

Job Summary

  • As a staff engineer on the Commerce Engineering team, you will set the engineering direction for mission-critical capabilities — including usage-based billing, payment processing, customer-facing analytics, and product entitlements — while raising the bar for the engineers around you.
  • You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, product, finance, and go-to-market — translating complex business requirements into durable, scalable backend primitives that directly impact revenue and customer experience.
  • We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits.

Matching Summary

As a staff engineer on the Commerce Engineering team, you will set the engineering direction for mission-critical capabilities — including usage-based billing, payment processing, customer-facing analytics, and product entitlements — while raising the bar for the engineers around you.

Salary

$230,000 - $270,000; equity; health insurance and other competitive benefits

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • large-scale, fault-tolerant API-driven services
  • system design and long-term architecture
  • relational database schemas and backend APIs
  • distributed systems tradeoffs
  • low-level systems concepts
  • infrastructure as code
  • mature CI/CD workflows

Nice-to-have

  • payment processors and billing systems
  • Kubernetes and containerized deployments
  • research-driven artificial intelligence company
  • open and transparent AI systems

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience
  • tech lead or staff-level scope
  • Golang, TypeScript, Python, C++, or Java
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

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