Gushwork
AI startup
SeniorSDE(Backend)
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“Senior SDE (Backend) at Gushwork. Skills: Backend Development, AWS, AI/ML, System Design. Build backend capabilities. Design APIs and services”
What You'll Achieve.
Help businesses get discovered online; Show up in AI answer engines; Build a content engine; Attract AI visitors; Change search behavior; Reshape how buyers find solutions; Ship fast without surprises; Customer outcome
Industry & Context.
Solving hard problems; Query and workflow tuning; Idempotency; Retries; Observability; Pragmatic tradeoffs
On-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
backend ownership, shipped production backend systems, owning a bet from ticket to production, Node.js services, Python services, AWS-shaped systems, maintain reliable systems, build and ship ci/cd pipelines, safe deploy patterns, high bias to action, low bias to over-engineering, build trust with PMs, designers, and engineers, explain complex ideas clearly in writing, hold 3+ years of experience
Nice to Have
API design, data model, async workflows, deployment, customer outcome, small, reviewable PRs, measurable rollout, high-risk paths, clear rollback story, LLMs or AI pipelines, code generation, orchestration, evals, cost, testability, reliability, AI-assisted flows, latency, retries, queues, human-in-the-loop, meaningful traffic, data volume, workflow complexity, ECS, RDS Postgres, SQS, Step Functions, Secrets, observability, Sentry, pragmatic tradeoffs, simplicity, complexity, speed, POCs, Cursor, Claude code, async updates in Slack, threads not @channel noise, admit what you do not know, pull in the right owner, specs, PR descriptions, docs
What You'll Do.
Build backend capabilities
Design APIs and services
Keep systems performant
Collaborate with product teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with product and frontend teams; Build trust with PMs, designers, and engineers; Admit what you do not know; Pull in the right owner
Communication Scope
Explain complex ideas clearly in writing; Async updates in Slack; Threads not @channel noise
Process & Methodology
Scoping, Implementation, Monitoring, Iteration
Full Job Description
## Description Gushwork is reinventing how businesses get discovered online. We're an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity - by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors. We're a US and Bengaluru-based company that's raised over $11M from top-tier global VCs including Lightspeed (backers of Anthropic, Grafana, Mistral), SIG, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We're changing that. We're at an exciting inflection point - moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that's becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we'd love to meet you. More about the role below - if you feel it's a fit, we are excited to meet you! ## what you'll do help build and ship next-generation backend capabilities - ai-led content research, webpage generation pipelines, lead capture, and integrations that power the product design and evolve apis and services across ecs, lambdas, step functions, queues, and the data stores behind them (postgres, mongo, redis) keep systems performant, robust, and reliable - query and workflow tuning, idempotency, retries, observability, and on-call-friendly runbooks collaborate with product and frontend teams on contracts, rollout, and failure modes so shipping stays fast without surprises in prod own high-risk paths with extra care - auth, migrations, multi-tenant boundaries, and anything that touches customer domains or data isolation write clear docs and runbooks for services, ops, and processes ## why we'll like you backend ownership you have shipped production backend systems that other teams and customers depend on - not only scripts or one-off jobs you are comfortable owning a bet from ticket to production - scop
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