Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Company: WisdomAI
Location: San Mateo, CA (in office 4 days per week)
Compensation: $250,000 - $300,000 + 0.05% - 0.25% equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Confirm with recruiter

About WisdomAI

WisdomAI builds AI-native analytics and business intelligence. Its Adaptive Context Engine and federated agentic platform deliver highly accurate answers on real enterprise data, putting data insights in front of every employee.

Founded in 2023, the company has raised $73M and has about 100 people, with senior mentors from Rubrik, Meta, Google and Uber.

The Role

WisdomAI is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (4+ years) to join its founding engineering team. You will touch every part of the codebase and product, working closely with engineers, product, the co-founders and customers in a high-agency environment.

What You Will Do

• Build and scale large data pipelines for latency-critical analytical workloads.
• Work across the whole codebase and product rather than a single silo.
• Define the product and engineering roadmap with the co-founders, product and customers.
• Design cost-efficient, secure and highly scalable systems on modern cloud infrastructure.
• Help shape the engineering culture and tech stack.

What You Bring

• 4+ years as a backend engineer
• Large-scale data pipelines or latency-sensitive systems
• Strong Python (Rust a plus)
• Cloud infrastructure design experience

Nice to Have

• Analytics, BI or query-engine experience
• Early-stage startup experience

Benefits

Equity (0.05-0.25%), comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.

Tech Stack

Python, Rust

REVENUE: 14% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $35K-$42K; 3 seat(s) = up to $116K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Databricks, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot, Sigma Computing, dbt Labs, Looker (Google), Hex.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 4+ yrs; backend data pipelines at scale; Python; cloud systems design; visa: confirm; location: San Mateo 4 days. Low competition, engaged hiring manager.