Backend Engineer at Dart (W22)
$40K - $100K  •  0.50% - 1.50%
The only truly AI-native project management tool
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)
Full-time
3+ years
About Dart

We’re building the future of project management—AI-first, product-driven, and deeply technical. As an engineer at Dart, you’ll:

  • Work on challenging technical problems across AI, infra, performance, and UX
  • Move quickly and ship often—tight feedback loops, high autonomy
  • Use the latest LLMs and modern frontend/backend stacks
  • Get top of local market salary and equity that scales with ownership
  • Enjoy fully remote work with flexible hours and a home office stipend
  • Have Pro access to cutting-edge AI tools—for work and for fun
  • Join regular offsites, virtual events, and a playful, sharp team culture
  • Take the time you need with unlimited PTO

Engineering Culture

  • Lean and fast-moving team with high ownership and virtually no red tape
  • Collaborate directly with experienced leaders on core product decisions
  • Rapid iteration is our default—we ship fast learn fast and evolve constantly
  • We operate with high trust and high standards valuing autonomy, curiosity, and follow-through
  • We use Dart every day to shape and refine the product through real-world experience

We’re looking for engineers who are product-minded, pragmatic, and excited by hard work, speed, scale, and impact—not just optimizing tickets.

The Product

Dart is the only truly AI-native project management tool. We help teams:

  • Chat with their tasks and docs as if they were teammates
  • Use agents to automate work
  • Plan intelligently, break down tasks, auto-generate reports, detect duplicates, and much more

We eliminate routine project management work—saving teams 7+ hours/week—and help them focus on execution.

We use the latest LLMs, a modern Python/Django/Vue/TypeScript stack, and tight integrations across the toolchain to build an experience that feels magical and snappy. The product is already loved by tens of thousands of teams.

The Company

Dart was founded in 2022 in San Francisco and is growing quickly. Backed by strong funding and real revenue, we’ve assembled a tight-knit team of ~10 full-time employees, including five engineers distributed across the globe.

In 2025 alone, Dart has significantly expanded both its revenue and its team. It’s an exciting moment to come on board—our rapid growth means early team members will have real opportunities to lead as we scale.

If you’re looking to build ambitious, AI-powered software alongside great teammates—and grow quickly with a sharp, technical founding team—this is your chance.

About the role
Skills: Dart, Django, Git, Python, Redis, Software Architecture, Bash/Shell, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

At Dart, we’re building an AI-native product suite with a world-class user experience—and powerful infrastructure behind the scenes. Our backend is deeply mission-critical, and we’ve invested in a modern stack (Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, REST, AWS) to deliver speed, reliability, and flexibility at scale.

We’re looking for backend engineers who thrive on product complexity, care about performance and correctness, and are excited to work with cutting-edge AI both in what we build and how we build it.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and scale LLM-powered systems that support agents, AI-assisted planning, chat with tasks/docs, and more
  • Use LLMs and other AI tools in your development workflow to ship faster and with higher quality
  • Design and maintain robust APIs and backend services using Python + Django
  • Optimize data models and queries across a PostgreSQL + Redis foundation
  • Work flexibly and autonomously across a wide range of product and technical challenges
  • Improve existing systems and architect new ones as Dart’s capabilities grow
  • Support and strengthen mission-critical operations as part of a high-ownership team
  • Collaborate closely with frontend, design, and product teams to shape how features are built
  • Participate in user feedback loops and design reviews with leaders and customers
  • Take initiative, move quickly, and learn fast—especially from real usage and live data
Technology
  • Primarily OpenAI for AI and agents
  • Vue + TypeScript + Tailwind on the frontend
  • REST API + WebSockets for real time
  • Python + Django on the backend
  • Postgres + Redis databases
  • Hosted on AWS
  • Native apps for all major platforms
  • GitHub + Slack + Zoom + Dart (obviously) for productivity
Interview Process
  1. Coffee or zoom chat to get to meet Zack, the technical founder
  2. At-home coding project with a 3hr maximum
  3. Onsite or virtual onsite with the whole team for a half a day
  4. Offer!

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