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title: 'Lead Software Engineer - Backend at Faros'
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# Lead Software Engineer - Backend at Faros

- **Company:** Faros
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/faros-ai/0a856ddc-76d5-4cbe-bcfa-b0a5ac928b2e

## Job description

Mission At Faros AI, we are reshaping the way engineering organizations operate, with an engineering intelligence platform that provides visibility and context across the organization's software delivery systems. This deep operational context supports engineering leaders today, and is increasingly essential as AI agents begin to operate within real software delivery environments. Faros AI is laying the foundation for how humans and AI will build software together in the years ahead.

## About the Role

We’re looking for software engineers who want to build the future of engineering operations with us. This is a hands-on role. While you will drive architectural vision and mentor senior engineers, you will spend a significant portion of your time writing code, building core systems, and solving our most complex technical challenges.

## Responsibilities

- Architect, build, and scale our highly scalable data infrastructure and core engineering platforms, owning the hardest technical problems from whiteboard design all the way through to production deployment.
- Lead from the front by writing high-quality, resilient code, establishing architectural standards, and building best practices for backend services/APIs to ensure system-wide reliability, security, and scalability.
- Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, translating business strategy into technical roadmaps and mentoring other engineers.

Baseline Requirements

## Experience

- 5–8+ years with ownership of critical components or services

Technical Stack

- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python
- Experience designing/consuming/implementing REST/GraphQL APIs
- Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks
- Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)
- CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
- Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall
- Security fundamentals

Cloud

- Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)

Collaboration & Communication

- Comfortable working with distributed international teams
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

English

- English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.

Education

- Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms
- Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling
- Experience with IaC, containers, serverless, queues/event-driven architectures
- Experience with security practices (authN/authZ, secrets management)
- Familiarity with engineering metrics (DORA, code quality, delivery metrics)
- Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development)

## About Faros

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Faros provides an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that gives leaders visibility into how work operates across code, people, and systems, enabling them to measure quality, productivity, and AI impact.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Vitaly Gordon (CEO), Shubha Nabar (Chief Scientist), Matthew Tovbin (CTO) – all former founding team of Salesforce Einstein

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Engineering Intelligence / Developer Productivity / AI Operations
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams and leaders
- **Mission**: “To forge a world where engineering moves at the speed of ideas.” – The company advances those who build, by turning engineering data into actionable insights.

## Products & Services
- **Faros Platform**: An AI-powered knowledge graph that unifies engineering data (people, agents, processes, tools) to provide a single pane view of velocity, quality, goals, costs, and AI token spend. Features include DORA metrics, AI impact & ROI measurement, token intelligence, and context for AI agents. Integrates with any SDLC tool and AI agent in days.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$4.2M** (LinkedIn estimate) / Total Funding of **$36M**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (led Seed round), Lobby Capital / David Hornik (led Series A); Partner mention: Microsoft Azure (case study)
- **Growth Signals**: 43 employees (+38.1% YoY headcount growth); 15 active job openings; customer wins include Vimeo; published “AI Engineering Report 2026” based on data from 22,000 developers across 4,000 teams

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team from Salesforce Einstein** – deep enterprise AI experience
- **AI-native architecture** – builds a knowledge graph of how teams build software, providing context that makes AI agents more effective
- **Complete vendor-agnostic integration** – works with any AI tool, SDLC, and workflow
- **Proven ROI** – customers report 40% fewer failed outcomes and higher PR velocity
- **Enterprise-grade security** and scalability handling thousands of engineers

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Transformation**: Helping organizations trial, scale, and optimize AI by measuring its impact on productivity, quality, and developer experience
- **Token Intelligence**: Tracing every AI dollar to shipped outcomes to justify investment
- **Initiative Acceleration**: Using AI-powered progress and capacity insights to keep commitments on track

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Intensity, Craftsmanship, and Transformational impact. The team acts like founders and optimizes for momentum and learning over comfort.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/remote-friendly; headquarters in San Mateo, CA with team members across the US, Argentina, Canada, and Switzerland.
- **Engineering Culture**: High-agency, data-driven, with a focus on building enterprise software that shapes how humans and AI collaborate. Opportunity to define the future of engineering operations.
- **Perks & Recognition**: LinkedIn employer rating **4.5/5** (2 reviews) with perfect scores for Work-Life, Culture, and Career. Active hiring across engineering, sales, product, and design.

## Sources
1. [faros.ai](https://www.faros.ai)
2. [faros.ai - Company](https://www.faros.ai/company)
3. [faros.ai - Careers](https://www.faros.ai/company/careers)
4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/faros-ai)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/faros)

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