Staff Backend Software Engineer
$225k - $300kTransparent Search Group
About the job Staff Backend Software Engineer
Staff Backend Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $225,000 - $300,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Not available (US citizens and green card holders) About Textla Textla is the first outbound operating system for SMS, giving enterprise brands AI-first infrastructure to deliver campaigns at scale across enterprise, SMB and political messaging. It delivers billions of messages a month. Founded in 2023, Textla recently raised a $50M Series A from top-tier investors and is a team of about 18. The Role Textla is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer (6+ years) to own and build the core backend systems behind its highly scalable SMS messaging infrastructure. You will join a small, elite team with massive technical impact, and should have strong career velocity and a record of building 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups (pre-seed to Series B). What You Will Do
- Own and build core backend systems across routing, messaging, delivery and automation.
- Design and ship scalable services handling billions of messages a month.
- Drive 0-to-1 development of entire product surfaces, not just features.
- Work closely with a lean engineering team.
- Solve hard infrastructure problems at scale while moving quickly from idea to production.
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience
- A record of building 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups (pre-seed to Series B)
- Experience with high-scale, queue-based infrastructure
- Node.js/TypeScript and AWS experience
- Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week
- US work authorization without sponsorship
Tech Stack Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, SQS, queue-based infrastructure
Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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