Backend Engineer

About Sana 

Sana is an AI lab building superintelligence for work.

We believe organizations can accomplish their missions faster when humans can effortlessly access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn anything with the help of agentic AI.

As part of Workday, we are committed to building AI that augments humans.

If that’s a mission that excites you, you’re in the right place.

About the role

This role will help build the core systems that power both our Learning and AI platforms. We're looking for engineers who can work with either Node.js (TypeScript) or Kotlin backends to create scalable, resilient systems. You'll focus on data flows, cloud deployments, and the orchestration that enables our products to deliver value to users.

In this role, you will

• Architect the systems that power Sana’s products. Your mission is to build and maintain scalable, resilient, and extensible systems that enable us to deliver features that transform knowledge sharing.

• Develop and maintain features and systems that drive our products.

• Be responsible for scalable and stable deployments.

Your background looks something like

• Experience building backend systems, modeling data, scaling, and tuning performance.

• Proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript) and/or JVM (Kotlin)—our two products have different backends.

• Proficiency with PostgreSQL and GCP.

What We Offer

• Help shape AI's future alongside brilliant minds from Notion, Dropbox, Slack, Databricks, Google, McKinsey, and BCG.

• Competitive salary complemented with a transparent and highly competitive options program.

• Swift professional growth in an evolving environment, supported by a culture of continuous feedback and mentorship from senior leaders.

• Work with talented teammates across 5+ countries, and collaborate with customers globally

• Regular team gatherings and events (recently in Italy and South Africa)