Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API
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Job overview
Parallel Web Systems is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API. Parallel Web Systems is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Back-end & API team. This role involves building and maintaining a backend system that handles millions of daily requests, ensuring reliability and performance as the company scales. The individual will also be a steward of the API, focusing on developer-friendliness and ease of integration. The company has raised $230 million and is valued at $2 billion.
Key focus areas include Build and maintain backend system, Ensure reliability and performance of backend, and Scale backend to exceed customer expectations.
Important skills include Distributed Systems, Databases, Maintainable Code Design, API Design, and Reason About Trade-offs. Preferred (not required): Customer Impact, Obsess Over Craft, Accelerate Change, and Create Win-Wins.
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About us Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.
We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.
Job: You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.
You: Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.
Life at Parallel Our team works fully in-person , between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.
We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:
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Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
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Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
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Accelerate change : Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
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Create win-wins : Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
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Make high-conviction bets : Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.
Compensation & benefits
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Competitive salary
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Generous equity
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Visa sponsorships
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401K plans
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Daily lunch & office snacks
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Dinner at the office
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Unlimited vacation
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Caltrain pass reimbursement
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