Staff Backend Engineer (AI)
Apply NowCompany: Sprig
Location: San Francisco, CA 94112
Description:
About Sprig
Sprig is empowering the fastest-growing and largest companies to build digital products for people, not just data points. Our platform enables product teams to ask any question about their product, observe user interactions, and receive actionable product recommendations to drive success. Today, we're proud to partner with industry leaders like Notion, Figma, Ramp, Robinhood, Coinbase, and TripAdvisor, helping them build world-class products.
As we continue our journey towards $100M in revenue and beyond, Sprig's vision is to shape the future of autonomous product development, where products evolve and self-iterate in real-time. By automatically analyzing user experiences as they happen, Sprig AI will synthesize data and identify product improvements instantly, ensuring nearly flawless user experiences and driving the next wave of innovation in product management.
As part of a new AI agent ecosystem, Sprig will collaborate with generative design and coding platforms to create a future where product teams will guide AI platforms in continuously adapting and improving products.
If you're passionate about redefining how products are built and want to be part of a team that's leading the future of autonomous product development, we'd love to have you join us. Learn more about our mission, values, and how you can be part of this exciting journey here.
About the Role
Sprig offers a world-class product experience platform that empowers top businesses to truly understand how their users experience their product. As part of Sprig's AI team you will build the features that allow product researchers and PMs to understand their users at scale. This includes AI analysis of always-on session replays, an incredibly rich source of user behavior data. We are the first in the industry to organize and distill the most important information from this data source that is otherwise impossible to parse at scale. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the critical backend AI systems powering features such as this.
This role is based in San Francisco with three days working in office.
Your Impact
Your Strengths
Benefits & Perks
At Sprig, we pride ourselves on being a people-first company, where your contributions truly matter and are valued. We were recently awarded by Fortune as top 50 best places to work in the US, and top 50 Places to Work in the Bay Area by Built In. Come join our mission of building products users love and have a real impact on Sprig's future.
Our Commitment to Diversity and 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 $220,000 - $260,000 + Equity + Benefits. Our cash compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for San Francisco, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.
***Please beware of scammers who are posing as Sprig and Sprig team members. Our recruiters use @sprig.com email addresses exclusively. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message, and we do not ask candidates to purchase equipment through us or solicit money from you. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from a different domain about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to law enforcement and contact us here.***
Sprig is empowering the fastest-growing and largest companies to build digital products for people, not just data points. Our platform enables product teams to ask any question about their product, observe user interactions, and receive actionable product recommendations to drive success. Today, we're proud to partner with industry leaders like Notion, Figma, Ramp, Robinhood, Coinbase, and TripAdvisor, helping them build world-class products.
As we continue our journey towards $100M in revenue and beyond, Sprig's vision is to shape the future of autonomous product development, where products evolve and self-iterate in real-time. By automatically analyzing user experiences as they happen, Sprig AI will synthesize data and identify product improvements instantly, ensuring nearly flawless user experiences and driving the next wave of innovation in product management.
As part of a new AI agent ecosystem, Sprig will collaborate with generative design and coding platforms to create a future where product teams will guide AI platforms in continuously adapting and improving products.
If you're passionate about redefining how products are built and want to be part of a team that's leading the future of autonomous product development, we'd love to have you join us. Learn more about our mission, values, and how you can be part of this exciting journey here.
About the Role
Sprig offers a world-class product experience platform that empowers top businesses to truly understand how their users experience their product. As part of Sprig's AI team you will build the features that allow product researchers and PMs to understand their users at scale. This includes AI analysis of always-on session replays, an incredibly rich source of user behavior data. We are the first in the industry to organize and distill the most important information from this data source that is otherwise impossible to parse at scale. This role will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the critical backend AI systems powering features such as this.
This role is based in San Francisco with three days working in office.
Your Impact
- Working as part of our high-output engineering team and jump in early to develop a world-class product.
- Own the development and deployment of the end-to-end backend systems powering Sprig's critical AI features at scale.
- Orchestrate backend data stores, services, and pipelines with high breadth and depth.
- Implement state-of-the-art AI algorithms using modern LLMs and AI tech stacks.
- Contribute to product roadmap discussions as we grow and evolve the product.
- Be a cross-functional leader across the engineering organization. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other various functions.
Your Strengths
- 8+ years of software engineer experience with focus on platform, backend, data infrastructure, or distributed computing at large scale.
- Strong experience with the technologies we use or equivalents: Kubernetes, Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, REST, and AWS services.
- Deep experience with one or more of the languages we use in the backend: Python, Typescript, and Golang.
- Urgency to deliver consistent and high-quality code and features in a startup environment with sometimes ambiguous requirements. This is a hands-on role.
- Ability to execute on both day-to-day technical work and multi-quarter planning.
- Experience with and desire to continue technical mentorship for other engineers.
- Hunger for continuously learning and applying yourself to brand new problems.
- Sharp written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with others and document technical work.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive Employee Equity
- 401K Program
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- FSA/HSA Benefit
- $175/month Commuter Benefit
- Additional Wellbeing Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Professional Development Stipend
- Hybrid Office Policy
- Lunch available 5x a week in SF and NYC
- Dinner available 4x a week in SF
- Company Sponsored Social Events
At Sprig, we pride ourselves on being a people-first company, where your contributions truly matter and are valued. We were recently awarded by Fortune as top 50 best places to work in the US, and top 50 Places to Work in the Bay Area by Built In. Come join our mission of building products users love and have a real impact on Sprig's future.
Our Commitment to Diversity and 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 $220,000 - $260,000 + Equity + Benefits. Our cash compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for San Francisco, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.
***Please beware of scammers who are posing as Sprig and Sprig team members. Our recruiters use @sprig.com email addresses exclusively. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message, and we do not ask candidates to purchase equipment through us or solicit money from you. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be from a different domain about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to law enforcement and contact us here.***