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Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

CompanyParallel Web Systems
LocationBay Area
Work ModeOn Site
PostedAugust 13, 2025
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About the Role
About usParallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.The role: You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.About you: Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.You might be a good fit if you have:Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experienceA field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceYears of experience required will correlated with the internal job level requirements for this position.Life at ParallelOur team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.Compensation & benefitsCompetitive salaryGenerous equityVisa sponsorships401K plansDaily lunch & office snacksDinner at the officeUnlimited vacationCaltrain pass reimbursement
Key Skills
Distributed SystemsDatabasesAPI DesignBackend DevelopmentScalability
Categories
EngineeringSoftware Development
Benefits
Equity401(k)Unlimited vacationDaily lunch & office snacksDinner at the officeCaltrain pass reimbursement
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
Build and maintain the backend that handles millions of custom requests daily, ensuring it is reliable and performant as the company scales. Act as a steward of the API, keeping it developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.
📋Job Type
full time
💰Salary Range
$150,000 - $300,000
📊Experience Level
Not specified
💼Company Size
Not specified
📊Visa Sponsorship
Yes
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
Not specified
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