As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and develop backend services using Golang and Python, focusing on scalability and integrating AI-driven features while collaborating with leadership.
Caddi is a seed-stage startup reimagining automation for professionals by transforming simple screen recordings into fully automated workflows. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll guide our core backend architecture, APIs, and integrations, collaborating closely with the CTO, founding engineers, product design, and CEO.
What You’ll Do- Drive end-to-end backend service design and development using Golang (primary) and Python, ensuring high scalability and reliability.
- Architect and evolve APIs, integrations, and automation workflow logic—balancing rapid iteration with robust, maintainable systems.
- Own infrastructure components with Terraform on AWS/ECS, leading decisions about performance, scalability, and security.
- Partner with leadership to define technical strategy and lead the development of AI-driven product features, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with significant experience in Golang (primary) and Python.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment. You don’t wait for perfect specs; you ask questions, propose solutions, and push things forward.
- Proven track record of ownership: you’ve led complex projects from start to finish and know how to turn business goals into technical outcomes.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; you make work visible, give early signals, and help others unblock.
- Proven track record delivering large-scale APIs, microservices, or event-driven systems in a B2B SaaS or similar environment.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform, AWS/ECS) and familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience shaping technical roadmaps, driving architectural decisions, and proactively solving complex problems in ambiguous contexts.
- Experience with AI systems, distributed computing, and event-driven architectures (Temporal experience is a plus)
Benefits
- High Impact: Your contributions will directly shape the product and future of the company.
- Impactful Work: Revolutionize how professionals automate processes.
- Flexible Environment: Work fully remotely or hybrid, we have a great office in Seattle available if you prefer an in-person experience.
- Comprehensive Healthcare: We offer medical (platinum PPO), dental, and vision coverage (100% paid for employees + subsidized dependents)
- Salary Range: $140,000 – $180,000 per year, depending on experience and location.
Top Skills
Ai Systems
AWS
Ci/Cd
Distributed Computing
Ecs
Event-Driven Architectures
Go
Python
Terraform
Caddi (trycaddi.com) Seattle, Washington, USA Office
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98121
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