Staff Backend Engineer - Drive AI Platform Architecture

Blitzy; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Blitzy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture and drive the highest-leverage work across our backend, infrastructure, and AI product surface. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will stay hands-on to ensure engineering quality and guide the team through complex design decisions.

This role involves mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and improving the software development lifecycle while collaborating with other functions in an in-person setting at our Cambridge, MA

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Python, Terraform, and AWS.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives without formal people management.
• Strong backend framework knowledge (Node.js, NuxtJS, Express.js, or Python).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for core platform areas, balancing speed, quality, security, and scalability.
• Write, review, and ship production code that drives meaningful customer outcomes and shape how the team writes and reviews code.
• Leverage Generative AI tools daily to improve quality, speed, and effectiveness across technical and non-technical work.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues and drive postmortems and fixes.
• Champion improvements across the software development lifecycle and promote better practices for deployment and operations.
• Build demos, prototypes, and technical content to create champions and aid adoption of new tech.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, sales, and other stakeholders in an in-person environment to deliver outcomes.
• Communicate decisions clearly and seek feedback to keep the team aligned.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural decision making

Mentoring

Tools

Python

Terraform

AWS

Node.js

Kubernetes

Job description

Blitzy is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own the architecture and drive the highest-leverage work across our backend, infrastructure, and AI product surface. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will stay hands-on to ensure engineering quality and guide the team through complex design decisions.

This role involves mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and improving the software development lifecycle while collaborating with other functions in an in-person setting at our Cambridge, MA