Senior Software Engineer, Backend
New York, NYFull-time$250–350K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Auctor is building the AI layer for professional services and software implementation, seeking a Backend Software Engineer to own and lead engineering projects, collaborate with operations, GTM, and services teams, and build state‑of‑the‑art systems that deliver value to customers.
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Full job description
Why Auctor Auctor is building the AI layer for professional services and software implementation. Think of us as the brain behind the best solution engineers, forward-deployed engineers, and onboarding teams— automating the documentation, the discovery, and the decision-making that powers $400B+ in services work. We’re going after one of the biggest software categories of the decade. Role Overview As a Backend Software Engineer at Auctor, you will own and lead engineering projects across our software offerings. You will work closely with our operations, GTM, and deployed services teams to build state-of-the-art systems that provide value to our customers. We’re looking for people who want to do the most meaningful work of their career—people who are sharp, fast, and relentless. No fluff. Just speed, execution, and a shot to build something generational. This role is based in New York, NY, in person 5 days per week. What You'll Do
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Retrieval over large corpora of enterprise documents
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Backend infrastructure for AI-powered collaborative workflows
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Building multi-step planning agents for enterprise project management
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Enterprise-grade security for sensitive organizational data
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Evaluating LLMs across document generation and synthesis tasks
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Data ingestion pipelines from enterprise integrations (Confluence, Jira, SharePoint, etc.)
What You'll Have
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4+ years (post-BS/MS) of backend-focused software engineering experience on product-centric teams
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Track record of building fast-growing SaaS products
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Experience building backend platforms that can support multiple product lines
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Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
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Experience architecting scalable systems to support rapid growth and enterprise-level traffic
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Grit - experience working at early-stage startups is a plus
Compensation Range $250,000-$350,000 Benefits
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Early-stage equity
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Competitive, top-of-market salary
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Catered lunch and dinners
How this job compares
Set against the 3,093 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$250–350K/yr
- New York median$171–235K/yr361 salary ranges
- US median$152–225K/yr2,467 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $300K, is 48% above the New York median midpoint ($202K) — in the top quarter of Backend Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 465 open Backend Engineer jobs in New York and 3,093 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,554 postings).
- Education
- 812 of the 3,093 open Backend Engineer jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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