USD per year
Artisan
AI employees called Artisans, starting with an AI BDR
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
$225K - $300K0.07% - 0.22%0 San Francisco / New York, NY, US / Remote (US) Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 6+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Apply to Artisan and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile. Apply to role 7
About the role
What Artisan Is
We're building AI employees. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Autonomous digital workers that do real jobs. Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR used by hundreds of companies. She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, manages her own deliverability infrastructure, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking. She's not a tool someone uses. She's a teammate. We're a YC W24 company, have raised $35M+ from investors including Y Combinator, and are at $9M+ ARR. We just launched Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do. The engineering problems are hard and the surface area is enormous.
The Work
You'll build the backend that makes AI employees possible. Concretely:
- High-throughput AI orchestration. Ava processes millions of signals - lead data, email engagement, deliverability metrics, behavioral patterns - to make autonomous decisions. You'll build the services and pipelines that make this fast, reliable, and correct.
- Platform infrastructure. Artisan replaces an entire sales stack. That means email infrastructure, CRM, lead database, campaign engine, inbox management, and AI coordination - all in one product. You'll own real pieces of this.
- High ownership, shipping, end to end. Design it, build it, deploy it, monitor it. We don't have separate teams for "architecture" and "implementation." You own the outcome.
- Moving and iterating very fast. You9ll constantly be shipping. We have a completely flat engineering org, so you won9t run into red tape.
Our stack: TypeScript/Node, PostgreSQL, Redis,... Kubernetes,... Mastra,... Temporal,... Langfuse,... ECS,... EC2,... deployed on AWS... We release constantly.
Who We're Looking For
- 6+ years of backend experience... high-growth startup... owned systems...
- A 5x engineer who knows how to leverage Claude Code effectively...
- You've built and operated data-intensive services at scale... distributed systems... database performance... API design... keep things running...
- Comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure: containers,... orchestration,... CI/CD,... monitoring...
- Strong opinions on reliability,... observability,... testing... pragmatic about when to move fast...
- Clear communicator... explain system design to engineer or product lead with equal clarity...
- TypeScript/Node preferred... Python,... Go,... fundamentals strong.
Why This Role
The problem is genuinely interesting.... Autonomous AI agents interact with real people,... manage real infrastructure,... make real decisions - backend complexity non-trivial growing fast. You'll have real ownership.... Small team,... large scope.... systems you build directly power product customers use.... No layers abstraction between you impact. The pace high bar higher.... ship weekly,... iterate constantly,... every engineer drives outcomes. Compensation reflects that.... Competitive salary + meaningful equity company real revenue,... traction,... clear path major outcome.
Details
- Full-time,.. in-person: San Francisco or NYC
- Remote considered rare circumstances
Adaptional is building AI for claims, addressing one of insurance's biggest operational blind spots. They combine deep claims expertise with frontier AI. The company is SF-based with AI engineers and repeat insurtech founders working with some of the largest carriers in the country. Their platform audits 100% of claims continuously to catch compliance gaps, leakage, and reserve issues in real time without requiring integration projects.
View Company Profile