Staff Backend Software Engineer

About the job Staff Backend Software Engineer Staff Backend Software Engineer Company: Textla 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. What You Bring 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 Transparent Search Group