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Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js + AWS)
Siena AI
posted 6d ago
Key skills for the job
Siena is building enterprise empathic AI Agents powered by reasoning-adept LLMs. Siena is the first AI Agent of its kind, designed to integrate with existing systems and interact with customers across multiple channels from a single, unified platform.
If you're excited about the intersection of human-to-machine communication and want to be part of a team driving innovation and making a real impact in automating agentic workflows, join us on our mission to revolutionize customer experience through empathetic AI.
We're not big on corporate-speak, but here's what matters to us:
Curiosity and creativity : You always seek new knowledge, ask questions, and explore different perspectives to deepen your understanding.
Customer empathy : You are driven by our customers success. You see needs they cant articulate.
Resilience : You bounce back from setbacks, adapt to change, and thrive in the face of challenges.
Ownership and autonomy : When things break, you fix first, explain later.
Relationships : You create bonds with your colleagues - building trust and sharing success.
Craft and speed : You balance vision with pragmatism. Your standards pull everyone higher.
Open and direct : You share and receive feedback. You are open about whats working and what not.
In the role of senior backend engineer, you own projects end to end. Ownership is yours - take over new and existing product features.
You'll contribute with ideas and constructive feedback to the product's development from the roadmap all the way to architecture.
You'll develop and collaborate closely with the Product team to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece.
Building products: 80% of time by building new software products, or improve existing features.
Mentorship: you have the ability to mentor and lead other members about 20% of time if you have an appetence for it.
Problem-solving: you unblock yourself and other team members when they hit a roadblock.
Have previous experience working on the backend for 4+ years - ideally with NodeJS, Typescript Express
Are familiar with the AWS cloud system. (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
Have experience working with Postgres (or similar)
Have experience with CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
You are product-focused and have the ability to build microservices products by understanding the business and customers.
You are proud of your microservices architecture skills . But don't like to brag.
We're a startup. We can't offer you fancy offices or extra perks. But here's what we can offer:
Real impact. Your work will directly shape our product and company.
A seat at the table. In a small team, every voice matters. Yours will be heard.
Freedom to work your way. Home, coffee shop, moon base - if you're productive, we're happy.
Top pay. Competitive salary and an opportunity for equity or stock grants.
Time off when you need it. Take at least 15 days. More if you need it.
Budget to keep learning. Because if you're not growing, we're not growing.
The chance to build something from the ground up. This is the time when what you do has the biggest impact.
Problems worth solving. We're reshaping how work gets done.
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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