Staff Backend Engineer at Artisan (W24)
$190K - $270K  •  0.05% - 0.16%
AI employees called Artisans, starting with an AI BDR
San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
Full-time
Will sponsor
6+ years
About Artisan

At Artisan, we're on a mission to create the most advanced human-like digital workers, called Artisans, and the software operating system for startups across verticals. We're starting with sales through our Artisan Sales platform and Ava, The Sales Rep Artisan.

Our first Artisan, Ava, is a BDR who automates the entire outbound sales process and can be set up with a 10-minute conversation. Ava creates the user's ICP, prospects with her database of over 270M contacts, does lead research, crafts & sends highly bespoke email sequences, and books meetings into sales reps' calendars.

We recently launched Artisan Labs, our research lab where we're pioneering the foundational technologies required to create human-like digital workers.

This is the next Industrial Revolution.

About the role

About Us

At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees - not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates.

Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR. She finds and researches leads, writes emails in customers’ tone of voice, runs outbound sequences, self-optimizes, and manages email deliverability infrastructure. She learns, adapts, and improves over time - just like a human would.

Human team members use Artisan as their primary working platform, replacing a sprawling stack of sales tools, and have Artisans working alongside them.

We went through Y Combinator (W24) and have raised $35M+ from top investors. We’re at $6M+ ARR, with hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, and SumUp.

We’re currently working on Ava 2.0, pushing the boundaries of what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.

About the Role

  • Drive the design, and implementation of our foundational platforms and systems to develop tools that integrate natively with our Artisans
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features
  • Proactively identify opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades
  • Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies
  • Instruct AI agents to assist in code development

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialities in back-end systems
  • Highly savvy in utilizing the latest AI coding tools/agents
  • Experience in Typescript and/or Go
  • Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • A track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working fluently with standard containerization & deployment technologies
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling

Why Join Us

  • A unique opportunity to work on the development of AI employees which will interact with 10s of millions of people
  • Extremely competitive compensation and full benefits
  • Flexibility and autonomy to run experiments and try new things
  • Collaborate with a mission-driven, ambitious, and extremely talented team
  • Fast-moving culture where you'll ship meaningful work every week

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