SDE 2/3 (Backend)

Gushwork

is reinventing how businesses get discovered. We're an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity - by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors.

We're a US and Bengaluru-based company that's raised over

$11M

from top-tier global VCs including Lightspeed (backers of Anthropic, Grafana, Mistral), SIG, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We're changing that.

We're at an exciting inflection point - moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that's becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we'd love to meet you.

More about the role below - if you feel it's a fit, we are excited to meet you!

what you'll do

• help build and ship next-generation backend capabilities - ai-led content research, webpage generation pipelines, lead capture, and integrations that power the product
• design and evolve

apis and services

across ecs, lambdas, step functions, queues, and the data stores behind them (postgres, mongo, redis)

• keep systems

performant, robust, and reliable

• query and workflow tuning, idempotency, retries, observability, and on-call-friendly runbooks
• collaborate with product and frontend teams on contracts, rollout, and failure modes so shipping stays fast without surprises in prod
• own high-risk paths with extra care -

auth, migrations, multi-tenant boundaries

, and anything that touches customer domains or data isolation

• write clear docs and runbooks for services, ops, and processes

why we'll like you

backend ownership

• you have shipped

production backend systems

that other teams and customers depend on - not scripts or-off jobs

• you are comfortable owning a bet from

ticket to production

• scoping, implementation, monitoring, and iteration
• you can hold

api design, data model, async workflows, and deployment

in mind at without losing the customer outcome

product minded

• you tie technical work to

customer and roadmap impact

• you ask when and why is unclear instead of guessing
• you prefer

small, reviewable PRs

and measurable rollout over large surprise diffs

• you treat

auth, migrations, and customer-domain routing

as high-risk paths that deserve extra review and a clear rollback story

ai native

• you have built or operated software where

LLMs or AI pipelines

are part of the product path - code generation, orchestration, evals, cost, testability and reliability included

• you care about

quality, cost, and failure modes

of AI-assisted flows (latency, retries, queues, human-in-the-loop where needed)

backend capabilities

• you have worked on

Node.js and/or Python

services in production at meaningful traffic, data volume, or workflow complexity

• you are comfortable on

AWS-shaped systems

• lambdas, api gateway, ecs, rds postgres, sqs, step functions, secrets - or you ramp quickly with our stack
• you know how to

maintain reliable systems while shipping fast

• observability (e.g. Sentry), sane defaults, and pragmatic tradeoffs
• you know how to build and ship

ci/cd pipelines

and safe deploy patterns for the services you own

craft

• you treat and nurture your code like a piece of art, with the right balance of simplicity and complexity, without sacrificing speed
• you have a high bias to action (run those POCs with cursor/claude code), and a low bias to over-engineering

human

• you build

trust

with PMs, designers, and engineers - async updates in Slack, threads not @channel noise

• you

admit what you do not know

and pull in the right owner (buddy, infra, security) early

• you explain complex ideas clearly in

writing

• specs, PR descriptions, and docs
• you hold 3+ years of experience

why you'll love us

• you'll be part of an early team at a fast-growing company, with a lot of impact
• you'll get to work with really smart and helpful people
• we constantly adopt the latest technologies and stay close to the latest ai innovations
• opportunity to influence the direction of the product and engineering culture
• flexible PTO policy
• unlimited ai usage
• plus cool swag, a stocked pantry, and other benefits