True Talent Solutions Partners

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 7 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join the backend engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building features and systems that support its core product. You will take ownership of significant projects and help the team scale its engineering practices.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship consumer-facing backend features that support key business outcomes.
  • Develop data-driven systems for challenges such as matchmaking and fraud prevention.
  • Improve engineering processes, including experimentation platforms and CI/CD, to help the team ship efficiently.

What We're Looking For

  • Five to eight years of backend software engineering experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup or another high-bar engineering environment.
  • Experience delivering consumer-facing backend features end-to-end with measurable impact and limited direction.
  • Proficiency in Go, or the ability and willingness to ramp up quickly; familiarity with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with data-driven systems such as matchmaking, fraud prevention, or recommendation engines is helpful.
  • Background in real-time features, payments, or consumer gaming apps is helpful.
  • Hands-on experience improving CI/CD pipelines or experimentation platforms is helpful.
  • 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 121 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 122 open in Client Roles. 122 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 (67 of 122), LLM (48 of 122), TypeScript (39 of 122), React (36 of 122), Machine Learning (32 of 122), AWS (31 of 122), JavaScript (21 of 122)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 29 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

45 other open postings titled Senior Software Engineer, Backend state a salary: median USD 170,850 to USD 215,000 a year.

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