Senior Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco
- Salary
- $200,000 - $400,000 annually
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 29 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join a growing engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building backend systems and features that support its core business. You will take ownership of projects from idea through delivery and help the team move quickly as it grows.
What You'll Do
- Build consumer-facing backend features that contribute to key business metrics.
- Develop data-driven systems for challenges such as matchmaking and fraud prevention.
- Improve engineering processes, including CI/CD pipelines and experimentation platforms, to help the team ship efficiently.
- Take initiative in identifying projects and carry them through to completion with limited direction.
What We're Looking For
- Five to eight years of backend software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Go, or the ability and willingness to ramp up quickly; experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform is relevant.
- Experience delivering consumer-facing backend features end to end with measurable business impact.
- Background in a fast-growing startup or a high-performing engineering environment, with the ability to work effectively outside highly process-heavy organizations.
- Experience with data-driven systems such as matchmaking, fraud prevention, or recommendation engines is valuable.
- Experience with real-time features, payments, consumer gaming applications, CI/CD, or experimentation platforms is a plus.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field is preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
GCP
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 126 open postings.
Standard for backend roles
CI/CD · Kubernetes
Common in backend postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (72 of 125), TypeScript (47 of 125), LLM (43 of 125), React (38 of 125), Machine Learning (34 of 125), AWS (26 of 125), JavaScript (25 of 125)
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- Engineering Lead posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Director of Engineering posted Oct 29
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- AI Solutions Consultant posted Oct 29
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- Lead Product Engineer posted Oct 29
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- Solutions Engineer posted Oct 28
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- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Member of Technical Staff posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 28
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- Founding ML Researcher posted Oct 28
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Frontend Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed AI Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 28
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- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding AI Engineer posted Oct 28
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- Founding Engineer posted Oct 28
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Oct 28
- AI Scheduler posted Oct 28
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- Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 28
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- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
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- Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Oct 28
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 28
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 28
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Oct 28
- Security Lead posted Oct 28
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 28
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI posted Oct 28
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Oct 28
- Applied AI Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets posted Oct 28
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- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
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- Software Engineer posted Oct 27
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- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 27
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- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 27
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