Staff Backend Software Engineer

Company: Textla
Location: San Francisco CA (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $225000 - $300000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Not available (US citizens and green card holders)

Textla is the first outbound operating system for SMS giving enterprise brands AI-first infrastructure to deliver campaigns at scale across enterprise SMB and political messaging. It delivers billions of messages a month.

Founded in 2023 Textla recently raised a $50M Series A from top-tier investors and is a team of about 18.

Textla is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer (6 years) to own and build the core backend systems behind its highly scalable SMS messaging infrastructure. You will join a small elite team with massive technical impact and should have strong career velocity and a record of building 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups (pre-seed to Series B).

• Own and build core backend systems across routing messaging delivery and automation.
• Design and ship scalable services handling billions of messages a month.
• Drive 0-to-1 development of entire product surfaces not just features.
• Work closely with a lean engineering team.
• Solve hard infrastructure problems at scale while moving quickly from idea to production.

• 6 years of backend engineering experience
• A record of building 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups (pre-seed to Series B)
• Experience with high-scale queue-based infrastructure
• and AWS experience
• Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week
• US work authorization without sponsorship

TypeScript AWS SQS queue-based infrastructure

REVENUE: 17% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $38K-$51K; 3 seat(s) up to $134K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Attentive Postscript Twilio Klaviyo Iterable Braze.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 6 yrs; 0-to-1 at high-growth startups; high-scale backend/queues; Node/TS; visa: NO sponsorship; location: SF 5 days.