Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About the role

Unify is redefining go-to-market with state-of-the-art AI. As an early Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will partner directly with the founders to take brand-new product ideas from zero to one, set the technical vision, and establish engineering standards that will scale with the company.

Responsibilities

• Scale Unify to support hyper growth and provide a stable platform for large-scale customers such as Cursor, Perplexity, and Decagon
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and GTM stakeholders to translate ambiguous business goals into a clear, phased engineering plan
• Establish coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategy, reliability targets, and observability practices that future teams will inherit
• Rapidly prototype with third-party APIs, databases, model-serving platforms, and infra vendors to accelerate customer value
• Provide technical leadership for (and, if you’re up for it, manage) engineers across domains—pairing, reviewing, and unblocking as you go

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software-engineering experience
• Deep, hands-on expertise scaling and operating PostgreSQL—designing partitioned/sharded schemas, tuning indexes and queries, automating backups and observability, and running resilient multi-TB clusters with replication and failover
• Proven track record of shipping high-impact, production-grade systems at scale
• Passion for customers: you prototype quickly, iterate on feedback, and sweat the edge-cases that matter
• Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a history of mentoring engineers and leveling up the people around you
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft

Pay

This is a salaried position with a target range of $240,000 – $265,000 (depending on experience), plus an equity package.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) options

Schedule

Hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA, or New York City, NY.