AiDash
Staff Engineer - Backend
$230K–$270K
Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of back-end software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Architects and builds back-end services for new multi-tenant SaaS products, taking them from concept and pilot to production scale while setting technical direction.
What you'll do
- Design and scale distributed back-end systems, PostgreSQL schemas, and tenancy isolation models.
- Build APIs and AI-agent tool surfaces, and choose languages and frameworks for new products.
- Ship product pilots, guide engineering quality through reviews and mentoring, and decide when to stop unpromising work.
What they ask for
- Deep experience architecting multi-tenant SaaS and distributed systems at scale; expert PostgreSQL knowledge.
- Strong API design skills and hands-on experience or clear depth building tool surfaces for agents (MCP or similar).
- Expertise in Java and proficiency in Python or TypeScript, with a record of making and defending technology choices.
- Track record of taking ideas from pilot to product and having architected a system still running in production at scale.
Pay
$230,000 to $270,000 USD annual total pay (base salary + bonus)
Tools
PostgreSQL, MCP, Java, Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Build tool surfaces that let AI agents work with product data; use AI coding tools and agents to build, evaluate, and ship products, including validating generated code and making architectural trade-offs across inference infrastructure and user-facing delivery.
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