Senior Backend Engineer

Austin, TX | Hybrid (Minimum 4 days in office) | Full Time |

At Kizen, we’re building AI-super-powered tools to create a more fulfilling human experience. Our CRM, Business Intelligence, Automation Engine, and Marketing tools will drive universal healthcare, more impactful work, world‑class education, exceptional customer experiences, and — overall — a more fulfilling human experience.

Kizen is on a mission to give every team member an AI Assistant - turning every company into an AI-company, every worker into an AI‑Enhanced Worker, and every Process into an AI‑optimized, continuously improving process. Kizen is the first GenAI enterprise application builder. Businesses of any size, within any industry can build AI assistants for complex jobs across healthcare, finance, and HR and modern enterprise applications - like CRMs, Workflow Automation, Real Time Dashboards, and Secure Portals in minutes and perfect them in an afternoon.

Kizen helps teams systematically improve processes and business outcomes with data-driven insights and powerful automation with access to all the latest AI models.

Want to help create the future of work? We’re putting AI and intelligent automation to real use in the hands of real people.

We are looking for a hands‑on Senior Engineer with a history of focusing on user outcomes and rapidly delivering reliable, scalable systems as we bring our next‑gen platform to the world.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime for someone who wants to be at the heart of the AI movement to better humanity. As a Senior Backend Engineer
, you’ll be working directly with our Director of Platform Engineering to build new user‑facing features and enhancements, and to scale the core Kizen platform with our users’ growing needs.

• Customer Obsessed
  . We are fanatical about making our customers wildly successful. We adopt our customers’ missions as our own, and do not rest until they have made their mark on the world and achieved every last goal.
• Fiercely Kind. Kindness is a way of life, so we strive to be a force for good in all we do. We value all people, treating others with unwavering respect, compassion, and understanding. In the spirit of stewardship, we aim to leave things better than they were.
• Relentlessly Excellent. We build amazing teams and unleash their talents. We approach our work with a sense of urgency, always giving our best effort, then trying to do a little better. We operate with complete transparency, creating trust and resolving issues faster.
• Amazingly Fun. Doing the job of your dreams should be outrageously fun. We laugh a lot, and celebrate early and often. We embrace an attitude of optimism and genuinely enjoy collaborating.

• Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we’re building scalable, maintainable software
• Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
• Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure that the backend tickets keep the frontend team fully enabled
• Craft elegant, reliable, and scalable code
• Write tests to ensure stability as the codebase evolves over time
• Meet technical issues head on: troubleshooting and quickly creating resolution plans to rapidly address acute customer impact, while also planning for long‑term success

• Bachelor’s degree or greater required in Computer Science (preferred), Information Technology, or related field (Physics, mathematics, engineering)
• Ability to facilitate a task’s entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
• 7+ years of professional development experience (Python preferred)
• 2+ years developing on Django
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or managing enterprise‑scale Postgre
  
  SQL implementations
• 2+ years of direct experience with database optimization techniques like indexing, clustering, and sharding
• Experience deploying and optimizing cloud‑hosted applications (AWS preferred, Kubernetes Preferred)
• Exceptional collaboration, organizational, time management, and communication skills
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
• Driven and self‑motivated…