Senior Backend Engineer (AI-First)
Revi
Software Engineering, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 21, 2025
The Revi Mission 🚀
Brick and mortar is not dead but drastically changing, and Revi is leading that change into the future. 31 years ago, Web 1.0 started and it gave people the ability to click hyperlinks and read text. When Web 2.0 came about 10 years later, it revolutionized the world. It allowed people to do things like buy, ship, mail, shop, and more.In the past, doing these things was only reserved for an in-person physical experience, but they can now be done online. That one technological advancement, though simple, changed the world. Now, the internet is so robust that there are things you can do online that you cannot do in a physical location. This is the next great shift in the market that Revi is calling Web 3.0.Companies are now trying to bring this digital experience into physical stores in their own siloed ecosystems. For example, Uber brings a simplified way to interact with cabs in the physical world, Bonobos brings a simplified way to interact with their physical retail stores, and the Amazon Go store simplifies purchasing in its physical stores. Revi is looking to bring this way of interacting with physical locations to all consumers, no matter what physical store you walk into.Revi offers businesses an in-store digital platform that allows businesses to build long-lasting relationships with their customers and allows consumers to interact with any business they walk into digitally. Our product is a beautifully designed in-store self-ordering system where consumers can buy, pay, get rewards, and much more. The data collected is leveraged to improve the ordering experience and attract new consumers. With a fresh round of Series A funding from top Silicon Valley seed investors, we are ready to pursue a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
It’s an excellent time to join because 🥳
You’ll be joining a collaborative, in-person team at a pivotal moment in our company’s growth. We're laying the foundation for massive scale, and this role will shape the future of our core backend infrastructure to power products across consumer and partner experiences.
The Revi Role 👩💻 👨🏾💻
We’re looking for a seasoned and forward-thinking Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services that power Revi’s core applications. You’ll own API development, distributed systems, and database design while collaborating closely with Product and Frontend teams.
What sets this role apart: you’ll bring an AI-first mindset, leveraging AI coding and testing tools to accelerate development, improve test coverage, and ship with higher quality. You’ll be instrumental in shaping how Revi uses AI in engineering workflows as we scale.
What You’ll Do 👷🏾♂️
If your experience aligns with the role, a member of our team will reach out to set up next steps. In the meantime, you can explore our work at www.getrevi.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Brick and mortar is not dead but drastically changing, and Revi is leading that change into the future. 31 years ago, Web 1.0 started and it gave people the ability to click hyperlinks and read text. When Web 2.0 came about 10 years later, it revolutionized the world. It allowed people to do things like buy, ship, mail, shop, and more.In the past, doing these things was only reserved for an in-person physical experience, but they can now be done online. That one technological advancement, though simple, changed the world. Now, the internet is so robust that there are things you can do online that you cannot do in a physical location. This is the next great shift in the market that Revi is calling Web 3.0.Companies are now trying to bring this digital experience into physical stores in their own siloed ecosystems. For example, Uber brings a simplified way to interact with cabs in the physical world, Bonobos brings a simplified way to interact with their physical retail stores, and the Amazon Go store simplifies purchasing in its physical stores. Revi is looking to bring this way of interacting with physical locations to all consumers, no matter what physical store you walk into.Revi offers businesses an in-store digital platform that allows businesses to build long-lasting relationships with their customers and allows consumers to interact with any business they walk into digitally. Our product is a beautifully designed in-store self-ordering system where consumers can buy, pay, get rewards, and much more. The data collected is leveraged to improve the ordering experience and attract new consumers. With a fresh round of Series A funding from top Silicon Valley seed investors, we are ready to pursue a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
It’s an excellent time to join because 🥳
You’ll be joining a collaborative, in-person team at a pivotal moment in our company’s growth. We're laying the foundation for massive scale, and this role will shape the future of our core backend infrastructure to power products across consumer and partner experiences.
The Revi Role 👩💻 👨🏾💻
We’re looking for a seasoned and forward-thinking Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services that power Revi’s core applications. You’ll own API development, distributed systems, and database design while collaborating closely with Product and Frontend teams.
What sets this role apart: you’ll bring an AI-first mindset, leveraging AI coding and testing tools to accelerate development, improve test coverage, and ship with higher quality. You’ll be instrumental in shaping how Revi uses AI in engineering workflows as we scale.
What You’ll Do 👷🏾♂️
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices in Python using Django (including Django Admin) and FastAPI
- Optimize performance across distributed systems and relational databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- Lead backend architecture for critical roadmap initiatives, including AI-assisted tooling, payments, and reporting
- Ensure reliability, maintainability, and observability across backend systems
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Frontend teams to deliver features end-to-end
- Champion AI-driven coding practices, using tools for code generation, test automation, and faster prototyping
- Drive CI/CD best practices, test coverage, and deployment quality across environments
- Guide infrastructure evolution on AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Mentor junior engineers, review code, and help set strong technical standards
- 4–6 years of backend engineering experience, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment
- Deep expertise in Python with strong knowledge of Django
- Hands-on experience building APIs, event-driven systems, and services at scale
- Proficiency in SQL database design, and query optimization
- Strong working knowledge of AWS services (compute, storage, monitoring)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code
- Comfort using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) as development companions
- Strong product sense and ability to navigate ambiguity with pragmatism
- Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative, team-first mindset
- Experience with payment systems (Stripe) and other third-party integrations (e.g., Kitchen Hub, Otter, 7Shifts)
- Familiarity with observability stacks like Datadog, Sentry, or Prometheus/Grafana
- Contributions to open-source projects or experience mentoring junior engineers
- DevOps experience with AWS and cloud-native systems
- ❤️ Heart: A team that is passionate about what they do, with a heart of giving back
- 🔨 Impact: Drives backend innovation that directly enables Revi’s platform scale
- 🧠 Conscientious: Writes clean, scalable, and maintainable code that holds up at scale
- 🏆 Excellence: A commitment to quality, testing, and thoughtful architecture
- Equity package
- Competitive salary + bonus
- Professional development opportunities
- Excellent and comprehensive health plans (Medical, dental, vision, etc)
- Flexible Vacation Policy, Paid holidays
- Organized volunteer events to give back to our community
- Off-sites, events, and happy hours
- 401(k)
If your experience aligns with the role, a member of our team will reach out to set up next steps. In the meantime, you can explore our work at www.getrevi.com and follow us on LinkedIn.