Mid-Level Software Engineer, Backend (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Glue is a company focused on rethinking work communication by integrating AI into team chat for improved productivity. They are seeking a backend engineer to help prepare their product for launch, working closely with the leadership team to set the direction of the service architecture and APIs.

Responsibilities:

• Help lead the effort to prepare the product for launch.

• Work closely with the CEO/CTO and the rest of the Glue team to make early decisions and help set the direction of the service architecture, APIs, codebase, and team culture.

• Ship daily and experiment with ideas and interactions focusing on usability, attention to detail, performance, and innovation around optimal team communication.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 5+ years of backend development experience, including building resilient, scalable services that handle high-throughput data pipelines

• 2+ years of designing and maintaining production-grade systems, from data ingestion and model integration to serving and monitoring, with attention to latency and cost trade-offs

• 2+ years of experience with a strongly-typed, server-side language (e.g. Go, TypeScript) in production environments

• 2+ years working with SQL (and NoSQL) databases at both application and infrastructure levels, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning

• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful and GraphQL APIs, with emphasis on integrating AI/ML inference endpoints and ensuring predictable SLAs

• Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and RAG systems, including text chunking, vector store tuning, and relevance optimization

• Proficient in observability tooling—monitoring, logging, alerting—to catch edge cases, maintain uptime, and validate model performance in production

• Independent and self-motivated; maintaining side projects or open-source libraries in AI/ML is a major plus

Company:

Glue allows users to communicate with colleagues without moving workspaces, channel fatigue, loud alerts, or complicated setup. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.