Senior Backend Engineer - KIZEN

Location: Austin (Domain), TX (In-office 4x per week)

Company: Kizen, www.kizen.com

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

About Us

Kizen’s Platform, AI Agents & True Context Technology (TCT) power millions of mission-critical experiences for leading organizations in highly regulated industries (insurance, healthcare, financial services).

Our platform helps organizations automate the workflows that matter most — from helping insurance agents manage contracting and commissions, to enabling healthcare providers to deliver proactive patient care, to empowering financial institutions to classify documents and extract data automatically.

And that’s just the beginning. With Kizen, developers can build new enterprise applications and impactful AI agents, while business users can customize dashboards and agents using natural language, low-code, or code — all on the same platform.

What used to take months or years to build, configure, and connect now takes just days. Kizen combines powerful pre-built agents and use cases with an enterprise platform for automation and data connection — all built on an AI-first architecture that’s easy to adopt, scale, and trust.

We’re solving real operational problems and helping the world’s most complex organizations work faster, smarter, and more humanely.

Join us in transforming how industries work — one workflow, one agent, and one customer success story at a time.

About the Role

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.

Our core values are the heart of Kizen’s DNA. They are baked into our culture, drive our decisions, and manifest in how we treat our customers, partners, and each other. We are:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities 

• 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

Requirements

• 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 PostgreSQL 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 with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing with Django REST Framework
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
• Experience with RabbitMQ
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Experience with data replication technologies/redundancy to ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• You’ve made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects
• Passion for data warehousing, business intelligence, and predictive analytics

Why Kizen

We’re a fast-growing company that values innovation, growth, and continuous improvement. By joining Kizen, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the company while enjoying a supportive, dynamic, and collaborative workplace. You’ll have opportunities for professional development, impact, and career advancement.

What We Offer

• Career Growth Opportunities
• Engaging Work Culture
• Top-Tier Compensation
• Equity Package
• Healthcare Coverage
• Professional Development Stipends
• PTO 

Kizen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Kizen, we fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. 

The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000k. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to base salary, we also offer generous equity and benefits packages.

If you’re excited about creating impactful experiences and contributing to a fast-paced, people-focused team, we’d love to meet you!

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

Location: Domain (Austin office)

Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role