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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer/Infrastructure at Perfect Venue'
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# Senior Backend Engineer/Infrastructure at Perfect Venue

- **Company:** Perfect Venue
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perfect-venue/fd0d545d-7fd0-4014-8523-be27a04b9aae

## Job description

## About Us

The more AI does, the more people want to be in the same room. The retirement party. The rehearsal dinner. The offsite where a team that has only met over video finally sits at one table.

Someone has to make those gatherings happen, and today that person is drowning. Private events and group dining are an $80 billion market in the United States, and most of it still runs on email chains and spreadsheets or legacy software.

At Perfect Venue we are on a mission to bring communities together by making it effortless to plan events. We combine intuitive software with AI agents that make it easy for venues to increase sales, save hours every week, and bring their communities together.

We are backed by top investors and operators like the Hustle Fund, [Defy.vc](http://Defy.vc), Amity Ventures and are used by thousands of venues nationwide from Michelin star restaurants to your favorite bar.

## The role

We're looking for a senior backend engineer who enjoys building useful product features and operating the systems behind them. You'll work on our application, APIs, data models, integrations, and background jobs, while sharing responsibility for our cloud infrastructure with our engineering lead.

Application development is the primary focus of this role. You'll also bring practical experience keeping production services reliable, reviewing infrastructure changes, and investigating issues across application and cloud boundaries.

## What you'll do

- Deliver customer-facing features from product discussion through release and iteration.
- Own backend features from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
- Build reliable APIs, integrations, and background processing for customer workflows.
- Improve database queries, application performance, and failure handling as the product grows.
- Work with our engineering lead to maintain AWS infrastructure and review Terraform changes.
- Investigate production incidents, improve monitoring and recovery procedures, and document what the team needs to operate services confidently.
- Collaborate with product and frontend engineers on practical solutions, and support teammates through code reviews and mentoring.

## What you'll bring

- Experience independently delivering and maintaining backend features in a production web application.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language and web framework, such as Rails, Django, Laravel, Node.js, .NET, or a comparable stack.
- Strong relational database and SQL skills, including data modeling, query performance, and transactions.
- Experience designing APIs and handling asynchronous processing, integration failures, and retries.
- Hands-on experience deploying, troubleshooting, and operating applications on AWS or another major cloud platform, including working with permissions, networking, and application configuration.
- Experience reviewing and changing infrastructure as code using Terraform or a comparable tool.
- A practical approach to automated testing, safe releases, production debugging, and communicating technical tradeoffs.
- Experience helping other engineers through feedback, technical guidance, or mentoring.

Helpful experience

- Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
- AWS and Terraform specifically.
- GraphQL, third-party integrations, and SaaS business workflows.
- Backup and recovery practices, observability, and application security.
- Enough frontend experience to collaborate comfortably in a React/TypeScript application.

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
- Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents
- Flexible PTO & 401(k)
- Daily lunches when onsite
- Unlimited book budget
- Company laptop
- Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family

Perfect Venue is committed to building a winning team We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We will work to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

## About Perfect Venue

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Perfect Venue provides event management software that helps restaurants and independent venues streamline the entire private event booking process, from inquiry to payment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Luke Hutchison

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Event Management Software, Hospitality Technology, Restaurant Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – independent restaurants, hotel venues, and hospitality groups that host private events
- **Mission or purpose**: To help restaurants and venues thrive by making private event management fast, simple, and automated; private events can account for as much as a third of a venue’s revenue

## Products & Services
- **Perfect Venue Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based event management system covering lead management, proposals, contracts, Banquet Event Orders (BEOs), central calendar, payments (Stripe integration), email templates with AI Reply, team tasks, and real-time analytics. Includes a mobile app for on-the-go management.
- **White Glove Migration Service**: Full-service data migration for venues switching from other software or spreadsheets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $4.39M raised (last round: Seed VC, ~2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Defy Partners (lead), Context Ventures, Amity Ventures, Paul Madera, Shawn Tsao, and several others.
- **Growth Signals**: Workforce grew 121.4% year-over-year (currently ~27 employees). Company states that venues switching to Perfect Venue save an average of 12 hours per week and increase sales by 40% or more. Active job postings include Founding Marketer, Founding Recruiter, and Inside Account Executive, signaling continued scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for private events**: Unlike generic CRM or project management tools, Perfect Venue is purpose-built for the restaurant/hospitality event workflow, including BEO creation and venue-specific calendar management.
- **Customer obsession**: Stated value of being “customer obsessed” with a 4.9/5.0 product rating (189 reviews) and 5.0/5.0 employer rating.
- **AI & automation**: AI Reply features and email templates that auto-fill event information, reducing manual work for event managers.
- **Ease of migration and onboarding**: “No training required” claim and white glove migration service lower switching costs for venues.

## Strategic Focus
- **Hiring for growth**: Actively looking to fill founding-level revenue and marketing roles, suggesting a focus on scaling go-to-market and brand presence.
- **Product expansion**: Continued investment in features like analytics, AI, and integrations (Stripe, floorplan tools) to deepen the platform’s value.
- **Market penetration**: Targeting independent venues and restaurant groups that are underserved by expensive enterprise event software.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of “passionate and curious builders” with values including “We are optimists,” “We have fun,” and “We FITFO (figure it the f\*ck out).” A play-to-win mentality balanced with joy and resilience.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid work model based in San Francisco, CA. In-office presence is expected for some roles.
- **Benefits**: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance; meaningful early-stage stock options; 401k; company laptop and equipment; flexible vacation policy; One Medical membership; company off-sites; unlimited book reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Small, fast-moving team (3 people in technical roles) with strong ownership. Employees come from backgrounds at Toast, Cameo, and DoorDash, indicating a high-caliber product and engineering environment.
- **Customer impact**: Directly helps small businesses increase revenue, which can be highly motivating.

## Sources
1. [perfectvenue.com](https://www.perfectvenue.com/)
2. [perfectvenue.com/careers](https://www.perfectvenue.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/perfect-venue](https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfect-venue)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/perfect-venue)
5. [builtin.com/company/perfect-venue](https://builtin.com/company/perfect-venue)

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