Backend Engineer (SF or NYC)

Backend Software Engineer (2–6 Years Experience) Location: San Francisco or New York City (Hybrid – 4 days onsite)

Company: Artisan

About Artisan At Artisan, we’re building AI Employees— we call them Artisans— that automate entire business functions. Our first Artisan, Ava, is an AI BDR who manages everything from lead discovery to email sequences across a database of 300M+ B2B contacts.

Backed by $35M+ in funding and currently at $7M+ ARR, we serve top-tier customers including Revolut and Quora. We’re a 45-person team with a strong engineering culture, rebuilding our platform for Ava 2.0’s launch early next year.

Founded in 2023, our mission is to build “the final boss of software”— a unified AI-powered platform that consolidates every SaaS tool needed for sales. As we expand our AI workforce model into new verticals, there’s a tremendous opportunity for impact and growth.

Role Overview We’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer with 2–6 years of experience who’s passionate about building and scaling production systems. You’ll join our core engineering team as an individual contributor, responsible for developing resilient backend systems and infrastructure to power the next generation of our AI products.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-growth, fast-paced environments (Series B+ scale-ups) and wants to make a measurable impact on a product used by thousands of businesses.

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and scale backend services powering our AI employee platform.

Own infrastructure reliability, data models, and integrations.

Collaborate closely with ML, product, and frontend teams to ship performant, secure, and reliable systems.

Contribute to system architecture decisions and drive technical excellence across the stack.

Ensure observability, monitoring, and reliability best practices.

What We’re Looking For

2–6 years of backend engineering experience.

Background in high-growth scale-ups (Series B+).

Proven ability to build and scale backend systems in TypeScript/Node.js or Golang.

Hands‑on experience owning infrastructure and reliability initiatives.

Technical Skills

Languages: TypeScript (Node.js), Golang

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, etc.)

Other

Based in or willing to work from San Francisco or New York City, 4 days per week, onsite.

Visa sponsorship is available for qualified candidates.

Why Join Us

Work on cutting‑edge AI automation, reshaping how companies operate.

Join a fast‑growing, well‑funded startup with elite customers and huge growth potential.

Be part of a tight‑knit, high‑performing team of engineers, designers, and AI specialists.

Significant equity upside as we scale into multiple business verticals.

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