Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Workflow Platform

Standard Template Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of critical systems

Equity and competitive compensation

On-site in Flatiron District, NYC

Job summary

Standard Template Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflows team in Midtown Manhattan. You will design and build backend services powering workflow execution, orchestration, and cloud-native APIs, while collaborating with Product and Design to deliver intuitive experiences.

You will contribute to an AI-first platform, implement reliable, event-driven architectures, and shape engineering practices that emphasize scalability and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development skills in Go, Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services that power workflow execution and orchestration.
• Develop reusable workflow components and APIs used across the platform.
• Build reliable, event-driven systems that coordinate long-running business processes.
• Partner with Product and Design to deliver intuitive workflow experiences.
• Help define engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, and observability.

Skills

5+ years experience

Backend development

Distributed systems design

Async event-driven

Startup collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

AI/LLM applications

Job description

Standard Template Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Workflows team in Midtown Manhattan. You will design and build backend services powering workflow execution, orchestration, and cloud-native APIs, while collaborating with Product and Design to deliver intuitive experiences.

You will contribute to an AI-first platform, implement reliable, event-driven architectures, and shape engineering practices that emphasize scalability and observability.