Backend Software Engineer

About Us:

Basewell is shaping the future of workforce enablement through intelligent, human-centered learning solutions. Companies rely on our platform daily to centralize knowledge, streamline training, and deliver instant, contextualized answers to employee questions.

Our mission is to help others to do their best work, regardless of who they are, how they work, or where they're located. In practice, this means we’re tackling the global employee disengagement crisis head-on by addressing the $400B lost annually to undertrained, disengaged employees.

We’re a team of interdisciplinary, high-agency operators bringing deep technical and venture experience. Our product is in market and revenue-positive, serving customers ranging from early-stage startups to enterprises and the public sector. We’re backed by top US VCs and angels who share our vision.

If you’re excited about your work directly helping thousands of others build fulfilling lives, we want to hear from you.

The Role:

We’re seeking a full-time, US-based Backend Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build, scale, and deploy core infrastructure and products. You’ll be working closely with the founders, shipping thoughtfully and frequently, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

The pay range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000 USD, with the final compensation package including equity. Your actual compensation package will be determined based on relevant experience, skills, and location.

What You’ll do:

• Develop and maintain core product infrastructure and functionality using NextJS/React, TypeScript, Python, Node and AWS
• Collaborate on product roadmap and feature development
• Contribute to product architecture
• Research, analyze, experiment, and deploy new artificial intelligence and language model technologies
• Optimize system performance and scalability for global deployment

Who you are:

We’re seeking someone with strong engineering skills who align with our values. You are not a fit if the following does not describe how you think, lead, and work:

• Strategic alignment: you believe in high-impact work that benefits customers, team members, vendors, and stakeholders by creating a more humanizing, truthful, enduring, restorative, and just world.
• Operational alignment: you achieve goals while embodying grace, generosity, virtue, justice, patience, mutual support, inclusion, and opportunity.
• Leadership alignment: you lead others through a more surrendered, accountable, rested, and generous allocation of resources and power.
• You’re collaborative-driven, not ego-driven, taking full responsibility for your actions while remaining accountable.
• You give grace to others through active, thoughtful listening and effective, kind communication.
• You ruthlessly prioritize, act swiftly and ensure deployed resources drive material outcomes.
• You’re solutions-driven and attack hurdles with pragmatism and optimism.
• You believe in shipping beautiful, functional, products while maintaining profitable growth targets.
• You’re scrappy, and know how to push through adverse conditions with grit and focus.

What you need:

• Previous tech/startup, digital product experience, or equivalent
• Strong proficiency in backend web development
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks and orchestration
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles (quality testing, code reviews, etc)
• Experience building and deploying serverless SaaS applications
• Understanding of DevOps, data engineering and infrastructure
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for innovation and technology

Why Join?

• Opportunity to work on a high-impact product with a talented team
• Shape the future of how employees learn and work around the world
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies
• Significant room for growth with a huge success trajectory

The Hiring Process:

We have designed a thoughtful hiring process that allows both sides to comprehensively evaluate the opportunity, while maintaining speed and efficiency. Our hiring approach is as follows:

1. Initial screening with the founding team
2. Work on a limited-scope, high-priority project
3. In-person work session
4. Join the team and immediately start working on production requirements

Basewell is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We strongly encourage candidates to apply even if they don't meet every qualification listed in the job description.

If you’re excited about revolutionizing how people learn and work, we’d love to hear from you. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis, so we encourage early applications. Please attach your resume and relevant social links (𝕏, LinkedIn, GitHub) with all applications.