Senior Backend Engineer, Applied AI — Real-Time Matching

True Talent Solutions Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a senior software engineer to lead backend systems for an applied AI workforce platform. You will own core architecture, real-time matching, and AI-driven workflows, shipping scalable services in a fast-growing startup environment.

You should have 5+ years of experience (7+ for staff), strong Python and TypeScript skills, API/data-model design, and experience with PostgreSQL and message queues.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of software engineering for senior roles, seven+ for staff.
• End-to-end product ownership in early-stage teams.
• Hands-on startup experience shipping high-velocity projects.
• Proficient in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js; API/data-model design.

Responsibilities

• Define how AI agents automate workflows across a staffing marketplace.
• Architect and lead core backend systems, including real-time matching.
• Own platform architecture and guide technical decisions for growth.
• Improve backend performance, reliability and scale across APIs and data models.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to solve customer problems.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

APIs

Data models

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AI products

Job description

True Talent Solutions Partners in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a senior software engineer to lead backend systems for an applied AI workforce platform. You will own core architecture, real-time matching, and AI-driven workflows, shipping scalable services in a fast-growing startup environment.

You should have 5+ years of experience (7+ for staff), strong Python and TypeScript skills, API/data-model design, and experience with PostgreSQL and message queues.