Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platform

Yoodli helps people get measurably better in their careers. We help individuals achieve this by helping them land their job, onboard at their companies, learn new skills, practice a speech, sales pitch or difficult conversation, and then take your Yoodli coach with you from one role to the next. For organizations, this means helping you upskill your entire workforce for the AI Future. We’ve always believed in the human potential. In 2021, Esha and Varun started Yoodli as an AI communication coach - to help people communicate with confidence. Since then, our users have used Yoodli for so much more: to learn new concepts through AI Roleplays, practice different kinds of conversations (sales pitches, job interviews, manager conversations), and even use Yoodli as their personal coach to help them learn to use Gemini, Claude or other AI Tools. It’s why we expanded our technology to be the AI Platform for Human Skills. Who We Are Our team includes former employees from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tableau, and beyond, united by a passion for empowering people using AI. We're headquartered in the heart of Seattle, and we're having a lot of fun along the way. Our culture is built on failing fast, iterating constantly, and taking bold bets. We value humility, authenticity, and a can-do-attitude. We’re backed by Madrona, Neotribe the Allen Institute for AI, Cercano, and have raised over $60M to date. Our customers include Google, RingCentral, Databricks, Snowflake, Sandler Sales, Dale Carnegie, Toastmasters, and users in over 150 countries. We’ve been featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, Geekwire, ZDNet, and several other outlets (www.yoodli.ai/press). You can try the platform for free at www.yoodli.ai and learn more about us in this TED Talk. About This Team As part of the Platform team, you'll be building the backend services and architecture that power our product. You'll have impact across the entirety of Yoodli, across analytics, data, search, infrastructure, monitoring, cost management, security, and scaling. You'll work on our highest scale problems, go deep on technical challenges, and deliver solutions that allow us to scale quickly to match our customers needs. You'll do all this while getting to establish wide ownership and expertise. What We’re Hoping You Bring Mission alignment: You believe in our vision and care deeply about helping people achieve more by communicating better Backend expertise: You have strong experience building scalable, reliable backend services that power great user experiences Customer-centric thinking: You architect right-sized solutions - secure, maintainable, and built with the end user in mind Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better About You 5+ years of professional development experience, shipping production codeStrong backend capabilities - you've owned services end-to-end and have a track record of delivering in fast-moving environmentsSolid experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as CodeProficiency in TypeScript or Python, with the ability to debug complex distributed systemsClear communicator who works well across engineering and product, and who gives and receives feedback wellYou understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impactBachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceAbility to be on-site in our Seattle, WA 3 days a week(M, T, Th) Extra Credit Experience NoSQL databases and KubernetesGoogle Cloud PlatformSecurity and compliance experience What’s in it for you? Huge impact opportunity: Define technical strategy and build foundational systems at a fast-growing startup. Work directly with the founding team and shape the future of the AI platform for human skills Competitive compensation: Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company Base compensation: $160k - $190k Join a fun, inclusive and highly motivated team culture (and you can help define it!)