Software Engineer, Backend
Netic is the AI revenue engine for essential services who are the backbone of the American economy.
With $43M in funding from Founders Fund, Greylock, Hanabi, and Dylan Field who led our Series B, we helped our customers book hundreds of thousands of jobs across services industries in North America. There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on Netic.
You’ll join our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible.
What You'll Do:
Build Mission-Critical Systems: Design, develop, and optimize software that powers core business functions for service enterprises.
Architect AI Platforms: Create scalable microservices and multi-modal AI systems that integrate cleanly with complex enterprise data.
Shape Direction: Partner with leadership to define architecture, make build-vs-buy decisions, and align technical roadmaps with business goals.
Solve Performance Challenges: Address latency, throughput, and concurrency challenges; build systems for high uptime and data integrity.
Elevate Engineering Standards: Ship clean, well-tested code and drive code reviews, reliability standards, and performance improvements.
Mentor Team Members: Pair program, unblock teammates, and share best practices that improve team velocity.
What You'll Bring:
System Architecture Experience: 4+ years building and scaling distributed systems; experience leading platform development in high-growth environments.
AI Integration Skills: Hands-on experience deploying ML/LLM services to production and running AI agents at scale.
Technical Versatility: Proficiency in systems languages (Go/Rust/Java) and scripting languages (Python/TypeScript); ability to choose the right tool for each problem.
Operational Excellence: Deep expertise with observability, incident response, CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
Leadership Experience: Track record of mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects with measurable impact.
Business Understanding: Ability to connect technical decisions to customer value and business outcomes.
We believe fulfillment comes from producing your best work with the smartest people together in one room. All roles are in person, in SF (our office is in Jackson Square). What brings us together is our commitment to:
Live to build
Run through walls and win
Obsess over customers in each line of code
Lose sleep over the "almost perfect"
Show internal locus of control
Prioritize finesse: refinement of first principles thinking, execution, and craftsmanship
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.