Hybrid Backend Engineer — APIs, Data Pipelines & AI Workflows

GetWhys; Portland, Bozeman, Boise, New York (OR, MT, ID, NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) with 3% company match

Unlimited PTO + 12 weeks parentalleave

18 company holidays

Job summary

GetWhys is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build the systems powering our product and connect GetWhys with tools our customers use.

You’ll work across backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and data transformations, turning unstructured customer data into usable information for our AI workflows. This role suits someone who enjoys shipping reliable software in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend/infra software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript for production backends.
• Experience designing and maintaining production backend services.
• Experience integrating with third-party platforms or APIs.
• Experience moving data between systems (transform, map, normalize, sync).
• Comfortable debugging distributed workflows, observability, reliability.
• Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in an early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services powering GetWhys core product.
• Build integrations with external platforms via APIs, webhooks and other integration patterns.
• Design data ingestion, transformation, normalization, and synchronization across GetWhys and third-party systems.
• Own APIs, data models, and services that support customer-facing features and internal tooling.
• Work with structured and unstructured data for search, analytics, and AI workflows.
• Design reliable background jobs and asynchronous data processing.
• Improve reliability, performance, observability, and scalability of production systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to turn ambiguous product problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Evolve backend architecture as usage, integrations, and data volume grow.

Skills

Typescript

Backend systems

APIs

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Observability

Troubleshooting

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Job description

GetWhys is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build the systems powering our product and connect GetWhys with tools our customers use.

You’ll work across backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and data transformations, turning unstructured customer data into usable information for our AI workflows. This role suits someone who enjoys shipping reliable software in a fast-moving startup.