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Sr Backend EngineerWomenTech Network • Berkeley, United States
Sr Backend Engineer

Sr Backend Engineer

WomenTech Network • Berkeley, United States
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Smore Labs is a recently funded, VC-backed stealth startup building a UGC platform where kids play with AI to create, learn, and share with their friends. We’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with experience powering large-scale game services, collaborating with external partners, and a passion for breaking new ground with AI. This role is foundational to our identity, data, services, and AI platform designed to serve millions of families.

Responsibilities :

  • Design and own core backend services for identity (parent / child roles), profiles, content / UGC pipelines, subscriptions & entitlements, catalog / search, and telemetry
  • Integrate AI capabilities across voice, image, and conversation engines with clear SLAs and fallback
  • Evaluate build vs. buy and integrate partner APIs / managed services (payments, auth, storage / CDN, analytics) to accelerate delivery while maintaining a strong security posture
  • Bake in safety, privacy, and compliance for child audiences
  • Ship with reliability : CI / CD, observability, low latency, cost governance, incident response, and clear SLOs for backend and AI paths.

Essential Skills and Experience :

  • 5+ years building distributed backends at scale (one or more of Go, Python, C#, or Node) including 3+ years professional experience working on backends for games, AI, or social platforms
  • Experience integrating third-party / partner systems (storefronts, payments, identity, analytics) and defining robust contracts and SLAs.
  • Proven ownership of high-throughput services in production (autoscaling, rate-limiting, queues, idempotency, retries, etc. . )
  • Working knowledge of privacy requirements (COPPA; GDPR-K / parental consent) and how they impact backend design
  • Bonus : AI infrastructure exposure (model routing, caching, asynchronous generation workflows, safe-output checks)
  • The salary range is $133K to $196K

    Candidates must be authorized to work and accept new employment in the

    Smore Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer and ADA compliant.

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