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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Plot Technologies, Inc.'
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# Senior Backend Engineer at Plot Technologies, Inc.

- **Company:** Plot Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot/d457f74f-89e4-40be-85eb-ce89a847514d

## Job description

## WHY PLOT

Plot is building the next generation of social intelligence — an AI-native platform that helps some of the world's most influential brands understand culture, find emerging trends, and activate their communities at scale. We're a high-growth, venture-backed startup supported by the co-founders of Reddit and Plaid, with customers like Tory Burch, Lululemon, La Roche-Posay, and other household names.

We operate at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale data systems, turning millions of short-form videos every day into structured representations of culture and consumer behavior. Plot makes unstructured social media legible at scale, enabling brands to build a deep, systematic understanding of trends, audiences, and influence.

You'll join a small but mighty team where engineers own systems end-to-end — not tickets. You'll work directly with founders, shape foundational architecture, and make decisions that define how Plot scales for years to come. If you enjoy ambiguous problems, deep systems thinking, and building infrastructure that unlocks entire product surfaces, Plot is the place. It’s also a great fit if you aspire to be a technical founder one day — we operate with a strong founder’s mindset.

## WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

- Own the core data systems that power Plot. You’ll take responsibility for how millions of enriched videos flow from ingestion → storage → analytics → product surfaces.
- Stabilize and harden high-throughput write paths. Our pipelines ingest and enrich data continuously; you’ll diagnose failure modes, reduce error rates, and make ingestion reliable, observable, and predictable.
- Design data access patterns that stay fast under pressure. You’ll ensure dashboards and analytical queries remain responsive even while large volumes of data are being written concurrently.
- Separate transactional and analytical concerns. You’ll lead decisions around which workloads belong where, and design the systems and contracts that keep them from stepping on each other.
- Build read-optimized models for insight, not just storage. This includes partitioning strategies, rollups, and schemas that reflect how data is actually queried — by humans and by AI.
- Enable AI-native analytics. You’ll shape how our internal tools and AI agents query and reason over data, making it possible to answer complex analytical questions without brute-force scans.
- Make architectural calls that matter. You’ll evaluate tradeoffs, write RFCs, and guide the evolution of Plot’s data platform as scale, product needs, and AI capabilities grow.
- Raise the bar for reliability and performance across the team. You’ll define best practices, unblock other engineers, and become a go-to resource for data-related decisions.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Deep experience operating Postgres in production under real-world read/write concurrency. You understand partitioning, locking, autovacuum, connection pooling, and why systems fail in subtle ways.
- Strong systems intuition. You think in bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs — not just indexes or tooling.
- Experience designing or owning analytical data architectures, including read-optimized schemas, aggregations, or large-scale querying patterns.
- Comfort leading ambiguous, high-impact work. You can take a messy system, form a clear mental model, and chart a pragmatic path forward.
- High ownership mindset. You like digging into logs, metrics, and real data — and you care deeply about correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Curiosity, pragmatism, and a desire to build foundational systems that other engineers and AI systems depend on. No degree requirements.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

## About Plot Technologies, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plot Technologies, Inc. provides an AI-powered video social listening platform that watches, listens to, and reads every frame of social video to capture brand mentions and actionable insights that traditional text-based tools miss.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; latest funding: Later Stage VC)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (the company states it was “built by social media marketers”)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Social Media Analytics / Business/Productivity Software / AI & Machine Learning
- Target customers: B2B – social media teams in community management, marketing, research, and R&D; typically enterprise and SMB brands.
- Mission/purpose: “Make social teams unstoppable” by automating busywork and providing tools as powerful as the team’s impact.

## Products & Services
- **Plot Platform (Video Social Listening & Analytics)**: SaaS platform that uses proprietary AI to analyze video content (audio, visuals, captions) across social channels. Key modules include:
  - **AI-Powered Deep Market Research** – Answer strategic questions about brand, category, and competitors from video insights.
  - **Competitive Benchmarking** – Compare UGC performance against competitors.
  - **Brand Sentiment & Safety Monitoring** – Track positive/negative sentiment and flag brand safety issues.
  - **Creator Sourcing & Tracking** – Find superfans and creators by niche, attributes, audience, geo, size, or brand affinity; auto-track UGC from sourced creators.
  - **Campaign Measurement** – Measure views, engagement, EMV, and sentiment across every mention.
  - **Custom Reporting** – Slice performance by any description (gifted creators, specific content moments, etc.).
  - **Outbound Comment Engagement Tracking** – Track comment engagement driven by the team’s activity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised – $14M (as of June 2026)
  - Seed Round (Feb 2023): $3M
  - Seed Round (Nov 2025): undisclosed amount
  - Later Stage VC (Jun 2026): $10M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: XYZ and Mischief Ventures (led the $10M round); 8 total investors (list not fully public).
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $10M in June 2026; actively hiring for multiple roles (Enterprise AE, Senior Backend Engineer, Staff Data Engineer, B2B Marketing Lead, etc.); headcount of 7 employees currently (small but scaling).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Video-native AI**: Reads audio, visuals, and captions—not just @handles—capturing 80% of brand mentions that occur in video and go untagged.
- **Purpose-built for social teams**: Built by former social media marketers; workflows tailored for community, creator, and research teams rather than generic social listening tools.
- **UGC discovery at scale**: Automatically surfaces 8x more user-generated content than traditional listening methods.
- **Context-rich analysis**: Provides 360° analysis of every video (who, what, why) for deeper market research.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to scale the platform’s AI capabilities and expand enterprise customer base.
- Invest in product development (evident from open roles in applied AI, backend engineering, data engineering).
- Grow revenue and team from the current 7 employees to support increasing demand for video social listening.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Built with heart, by people who’ve done the work.” The team is composed of experienced social media marketers who understand the pain points.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote work with in-office presence (office located in New York City, NY).
- **Perks & Environment**: Focus on creativity, community, and culture; emphasis on moving fast and proving impact.
- **Engineering Culture**: Open roles for Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI, and Staff Data Engineer – indicating a strong investment in AI and infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [plot.so](https://www.plot.so/) – Official website
2. [plot.so/about-us](https://www.plot.so/about-us) – About page
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plot) – Careers page
4. [builtin.com/company/plot-technologies-inc/](https://builtin.com/company/plot-technologies-inc/) – Built In profile (company overview, jobs, culture)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/521627-86](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/521627-86) – PitchBook profile (funding, employees, industry)

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