Principal Backend Engineer — AI Admin Workflows (Equity)

Yoodli AI Roleplays; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunities

Hybrid work in Seattle

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Yoodli AI Roleplays is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer for the Admin Workflows team in the Greater Seattle Area. You will own scalable, reliable backend services and drive technical direction to enable enterprise‑scale training and AI‑powered analysis for admins.

You will design and own distributed systems and APIs, build content integrations, mentor engineers, and partner with product to deliver secure, maintainable systems that produce real learner impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional development experience shipping and operating production systems.
• Deep backend expertise with end‑to‑end ownership of services and setting technical direction.
• Experience designing distributed systems and scalable APIs and mentoring engineers.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python and debugging distributed systems.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own scalable, reliable backend services and drive technical direction.
• Design distributed systems and APIs that scale.
• Build content integrations and enterprise‑grade workflows for admin use cases.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Mentorship & leadership

Cloud infrastructure

TypeScript or Python

Effective communication

Business outcomes focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

NoSQL databases

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Job description

Yoodli AI Roleplays is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer for the Admin Workflows team in the Greater Seattle Area. You will own scalable, reliable backend services and drive technical direction to enable enterprise‑scale training and AI‑powered analysis for admins.

You will design and own distributed systems and APIs, build content integrations, mentor engineers, and partner with product to deliver secure, maintainable systems that produce real learner impact.