--- title: 'SDE 2/3 (Backend) at Gushwork' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sde-2-3-backend-gushwork-bengaluru-z0xxktwe70gx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # SDE 2/3 (Backend) at Gushwork - **Company:** Gushwork - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gushwork/c9e4bdeb-2e2d-4ec8-92f0-203d52e4b17b ## Job description Gushwork is reinventing how businesses get discovered online. We're an agentic AI startup that helps B2B companies show up in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity - by building a content engine on websites designed to attract AI visitors alongside human visitors. We're a US and Bengaluru-based company that's raised over $11M from top-tier global VCs including Lightspeed (backers of Anthropic, Grafana, Mistral), SIG, B Capital & Beenext. While search behavior is rapidly shifting toward AI, most B2B companies are being left behind. We're changing that. We're at an exciting inflection point - moving fast, solving hard problems, and building technology that's becoming critical infrastructure as AI reshapes how buyers find solutions. If you want to work on challenging problems with a talented team in a high-growth environment, we'd love to meet you. More about the role below - if you feel it's a fit, we are excited to meet you! ## what you'll do - help build and ship next-generation backend capabilities - ai-led content research, webpage generation pipelines, lead capture, and integrations that power the product - design and evolve apis and services across ecs, lambdas, step functions, queues, and the data stores behind them (postgres, mongo, redis) - keep systems performant, robust, and reliable - query and workflow tuning, idempotency, retries, observability, and on-call-friendly runbooks - collaborate with product and frontend teams on contracts, rollout, and failure modes so shipping stays fast without surprises in prod - own high-risk paths with extra care - auth, migrations, multi-tenant boundaries, and anything that touches customer domains or data isolation - write clear docs and runbooks for services, ops, and processes ## why we'll like you backend ownership - you have shipped production backend systems that other teams and customers depend on - not only scripts or one-off jobs - you are comfortable owning a bet from ticket to production - scoping, implementation, monitoring, and iteration - you can hold api design, data model, async workflows, and deployment in mind at once without losing the customer outcome product minded - you tie technical work to customer and roadmap impact - you ask when and why is unclear instead of guessing - you prefer small, reviewable PRs and measurable rollout over large surprise diffs - you treat auth, migrations, and customer-domain routing as high-risk paths that deserve extra review and a clear rollback story ai native - you have built or operated software where LLMs or AI pipelines are part of the product path - code generation, orchestration, evals, cost, testability and reliability included - you care about quality, cost, and failure modes of AI-assisted flows (latency, retries, queues, human-in-the-loop where needed) backend capabilities - you have worked on Node.js and/or Python services in production at meaningful traffic, data volume, or workflow complexity - you are comfortable on AWS-shaped systems - lambdas, api gateway, ecs, rds postgres, sqs, step functions, secrets - or you ramp quickly with our stack - you know how to maintain reliable systems while shipping fast - observability (e.g. Sentry), sane defaults, and pragmatic tradeoffs - you know how to build and ship ci/cd pipelines and safe deploy patterns for the services you own craft - you treat and nurture your code like a piece of art, with the right balance of simplicity and complexity, without sacrificing speed - you have a high bias to action (run those POCs with cursor/claude code), and a low bias to over-engineering human - you build trust with PMs, designers, and engineers - async updates in Slack, threads not @channel noise - you admit what you do not know and pull in the right owner (buddy, infra, security) early - you explain complex ideas clearly in writing - specs, PR descriptions, and docs - you hold 3+ years of experience ## why you'll love us - you'll be part of an early team at a fast-growing company, with a lot of impact - you'll get to work with really smart and helpful people - we constantly adopt the latest technologies and stay close to the latest ai innovations - opportunity to influence the direction of the product and engineering culture - flexible PTO policy - unlimited ai usage - plus cool swag, a stocked pantry, and other benefits ## About Gushwork ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Gushwork provides an AI-powered growth system that helps small and medium businesses generate qualified leads from AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity through a network of specialized AI agents. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, total funding of $15.1M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States (with main operational office in Bengaluru, India) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Nayrhit Bhattacharya and Adithya Venkatesh ## Core Business - Primary industry: AI-powered marketing & demand generation - Target customers: B2B service providers, industrial distributors, and contract manufacturers, primarily in the U.S. (SMB focus) - Mission or purpose statement: To help businesses get discovered, build trust, and keep buyer interest moving without adding headcount or managing multiple tools ## Products & Services - **Gushwork AI Growth System**: A single platform with multiple specialized AI agents that work together to automate online growth. Agents include: - **Memory Agent**: Learns business context, products, buyers, and brand voice - **Research Agent**: Maps buyer search behavior - **Strategy Agent**: Identifies ranking gaps and builds plans - **Content Agent**: Creates and publishes 100+ high-quality SEO pages - **Authority Agent**: Builds backlinks and citations - **Refresh Agent**: Continuously improves live pages - **Design & Development Agent**: Builds and optimizes websites - **Follow-up Agent**: Manages leads and conversations - **Paid Boost Agent**: Runs paid ad campaigns ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $33 million post-money (as of February 2026 seed round) - **Key Metric**: $1.5M annualized recurring revenue (ARR), targeting $3M-$3.5M within 3 months - **Total Funding**: $15.1M across 4 rounds (Pre-Seed, 2 Seed rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed India Partners, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), B Capital, Seaborne Capital, Beenext, Sparrow Capital, 2.2 Capital, NexWave Capital - **Growth Signals**: 300+ paying customers (95% in U.S.), growing 50%-80% month-over-month, 800+ businesses on waitlist, 20% of website traffic from AI-driven sources generates 40% of inbound leads ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover in AI search optimization**: Focused specifically on helping businesses be found by AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity), not just traditional Google SEO - **Network of AI agents**: A unified system with specialized agents that handle different aspects of growth, eliminating the need for multiple tools or agencies - **Backlink infrastructure**: Access to 200-300 partner websites for link building - **Proven results**: Customers report $200K-$350K in contract closures from platform adoption - **Capital efficiency**: Raising at increasing valuations ($7.5M → $33M) with clear ARR growth trajectory ## Strategic Focus - Expand engineering team to improve model accuracy - Scale go-to-market efforts to onboard 800+ waitlisted businesses - Deepen product capabilities for AI search optimization - Geographic expansion beyond current U.S.-dominated customer base - Continue improving AI agent accuracy and automation ## Why Work Here - **Culture of ownership**: Fast growth with merit-driven recognition - **Health-first approach**: Comprehensive health insurance covering employee, spouse, children, and parents - **Flexible work**: Emphasis on flexible hours with protected deep work time - **Performance-based rewards**: Compensation grows with skills and impact - **No corporate theater**: No micromanagement or meaningless meetings - **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling startup (50-80% MoM growth) with strong investor backing - **On-site in Bengaluru**: Main engineering and operations hub in India - **Employee rating**: 4.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (103 reviews), with high marks for work-life (4.5), compensation (4.6), culture (4.5), and career growth (4.6) - **Team size**: ~163 employees globally, with ~70 employees in India ## Sources 1. [gushwork.ai](https://www.gushwork.ai/) 2. [gushwork.ai/careers](https://www.gushwork.ai/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/gushwork](https://linkedin.com/company/gushwork) 4. [jobs.lever.co/gushwork](https://jobs.lever.co/gushwork) 5. 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