Company
Sentra
Annual salary
$190k – $300k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
108d ago
- Experience:
- 5+ years
- Workplace:
- Remote-friendly with offices in San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada. Remote engineers are expected to fly in periodically (e.g., a week or two at a time) for in-person collaboration.
- Visa:
- Visa sponsorship not available
- Equity:
- Meaningful founding-level equity
Remote (listed in San Francisco, CA). Visa sponsorship not available.
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What you'll do
- Own and ship product features end-to-end, from problem scoping through backend implementation to production
- Design and ship LLM agents that reason over large, messy, real-world organizational data, and make them reliable enough to trust
- Make key technical decisions across the product and backend, architecture, data modeling, APIs, tooling, and set the engineering quality bar
- Operate with full autonomy; in a team this small, your judgment directly shapes the product, the codebase, and the company
- Own high-risk, high-impact projects in a fire-and-forget work style with minimal hand-holding
- Shape the product direction alongside the founding team; translate customer needs into technical solutions
- Work closely with the founding team to support growing client engagements ranging from hundreds to thousands of employees
What you need
- We're looking for a generalist, high-agency engineer with 5+ years of backend experience building customer-facing products. You should have startup DNA, experience at top-tier startups (Series B or earlier) or as a founder, and a product mindset that ties technical decisions to business impact. We need someone who questions the "why," drives projects end-to-end without oversight, and thrives in early-stage ambiguity with high ownership and fast iteration.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What does this Sentra role pay? +
The listing gives $190k – $300k/yr.
Is this role remote? +
Yes, the listing is remote. Remote-friendly with offices in San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada. Remote engineers are expected to fly in periodically (e.g., a week or two at a time) for in-person collaboration. Visa sponsorship not available.
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