Waystation AI
Senior Backend Engineer
Redwood City, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- At least 6 years of production software experience; at least 2 years at a startup between seed and Series B.
About the job
Build scalable backend data systems and customer-facing product features for a procurement platform that structures supplier information from email.
What you'll do
- Design data schemas and manage migrations and backfills on live customer data.
- Build and scale queues and background jobs, including their ordering, retries, failure handling, and throughput.
- Guide engineers on design patterns while building product features and speaking directly with customers.
What they ask for
- At least 6 years of production software experience, with depth in backend and data work.
- At least 2 years at a startup between seed and Series B.
- Experience designing schemas for difficult domains and changing them on a live system without data loss.
- Experience building queues and background jobs, and designing consistent internal and external API patterns.
Tools
TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Claude Code
AI focus
Use AI tools every day and ship features that use models.
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