We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer with 5–10+ YOE to own and scale our core infrastructure. We need someone who has seen growth at a high-growth startup and is excited to do it again in a fast-paced, AI-native environment. You will be a foundational hire on the backend team, tackling complex scaling challenges unique to applied AI as we grow our user base and prepare for our public launch.
Responsibilities
Town is an AI-powered personal assistant that connects to your email, calendar, WhatsApp, and the SaaS tools you use every day. Unlike chatbots where you go to the AI, Town comes to you — proactively understanding your priorities, relationships, and workflows to do real work on your behalf. Founded in 2024 by Jean-Denis Greze (ex-CTO of Plaid) and Tony Vincent (ex-Director of Applied AI at Google), Town launched in February 2025 and is already seeing social media-level retention with thousands of users and 30–50% week-over-week growth, purely through word of mouth. We're a senior-only team of 11, backed by First Round Capital, Conviction, and world-class angels. No bureaucracy, no junior engineers — just a small team building something people genuinely love.
Salary
$250,000 - $300,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Total raised
$18.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Tony Vincent
CPO & Co-Founder
Jean-Denis Greze
CEO & Co-Founder
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.