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Overview

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform – Sprig

We are looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join Sprig's Platform Team. The Platform Team is responsible for the backend architecture, data ingestion, processing, and storage systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. Your work will directly impact customers by providing reliable, scalable, and insightful research tools that help teams build customer-centric products.

About Sprig

Sprig is building the AI-native successor to legacy survey tools like Qualtrics, Medallia, and SurveyMonkey. We believe the future of experience research will be fast, intelligent, and deeply integrated into how modern teams build great products. Our mission is to make deep customer understanding effortless and always on, enabling AI to uncover insights, accelerate workflows, and deliver exceptional customer experiences in real time. Notion, Figma, Coinbase, and TripAdvisor already rely on Sprig to stay close to their customers. We are scaling toward $100M ARR, launching new AI-powered capabilities, and expanding globally. If you are energized by bold ideas and rapid growth, we'd love to meet you.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Platform Team. You will work with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain features and infrastructure that power Sprig's product research solutions.

Your Impact

• Enable customer insights by implementing and optimizing features that power our event-based targeting systems
• Provide technical leadership on projects, guiding decisions and ensuring best practices
• Collaborate with product managers, AI engineers, and product engineers to integrate backend systems with other platform components
• Stay ahead of technologies and integrate them into our systems to keep Sprig at the cutting edge
• Drive data integrity and security by managing and maintaining databases to ensure accurate insights
• Design and develop robust backend systems to enhance platform scalability and performance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on platform, backend systems, data infrastructure, or distributed computing
• Experience with Redis, Postgres, ScyllaDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, gRPC, REST, WebSocket, and S3
• Experience in AWS and Terraform, or other Infrastructure as Code solutions
• Proficient in writing production-grade code using Node.js, Golang, or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Quick learner and strong team player
• Experience with low-latency, high-volume data stores is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Competitive employee equity
• 401(k) program
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• FSA/HSA benefit
• $175/month commuter benefit
• Wellbeing benefits
• Hybrid office policy
• Lunch and dinner provided
• Professional development stipend

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We prioritize diversity within our team and value different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Employee Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $260,000 + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The posted range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across locations (San Francisco, CA; New York, NY). Individual pay is determined by location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share the specific range for your location during the hiring process. Compensation details reflect base salary only and do not include equity or benefits.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development