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# Senior Software Engineer- Backend (Platform) at Yoodli AI Roleplays

- **Company:** Yoodli AI Roleplays
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yoodliinc/jobs/4364205009

## Job description

## Who we are

Each of us at Yoodli has faced our own communication challenges — overcoming a lisp, freezing during a job interview, feeling anxious about speaking up. That shared empathy shapes a culture that's uplifting, inclusive, and deeply authentic. We value humility, a bias for action, and the belief that we win together.

Our team includes former employees from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tableau, and beyond, united by a problem we've personally lived. We're headquartered in the heart of Seattle, and we're having a lot of fun along the way. Our culture is built on failing fast, iterating constantly, and taking bold bets.

We've raised $60M — including a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital — backed by Madrona, Neotribe, Cercano, and incubated at the Allen Institute for AI. We're valued at $300M and grew revenue 900% year-over-year.

Our customers include Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, RingCentral, SAP, FranklinCovey, KornFerry, Sandler Training, Toastmasters, and many more — with learners in over 150 countries. Results speak for themselves: Google Cloud certified 15,000+ reps without scaling headcount. Snowflake recovered 1,200+ manager hours per quarter. Harness cut training review time by 75%.

We've been featured in TechCrunch, Axios, The Information, Forbes, Fast Company, and more.

Try the platform free athttps://www.yoodli.ai[yoodli.ai](http://yoodli.ai).

## About this team

As part of the Platform team, you'll be building the backend services and architecture that power our product. You'll have impact across the entirety of Yoodli, across analytics, data, search, infrastructure, monitoring, cost management, security, and scaling. You'll work on our highest scale problems, go deep on technical challenges, and deliver solutions that allow us to scale quickly to match our customers needs. You'll do all this while getting to establish wide ownership and expertise.

## What we’re hoping you bring

Mission alignment: You believe in our vision and care deeply about helping people achieve more by communicating better

Backend expertise: You have strong experience building scalable, reliable backend services that power great user experiences

Customer-centric thinking: You architect right-sized solutions - secure, maintainable, and built with the end user in mind

Craft and quality: You hold yourself to a high bar for code quality and system design, and you make the engineers around you better

## About you

- 5+ years of professional development experience, shipping production code
- Strong backend capabilities - you've owned services end-to-end and have a track record of delivering in fast-moving environments
- Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure as Code
- Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, with the ability to debug complex distributed systems
- Clear communicator who works well across engineering and product, and who gives and receives feedback well
- You understand how your work connects to business outcomes and user impact
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Ability to be on-site in our Seattle, WA 3 days a week(M, T, Th)

Extra credit experience

- NoSQL databases and Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform
- Security and compliance experience

What’s in it for you?

Huge impact opportunity: Define technical strategy and build foundational systems at a fast-growing startup. Work directly with the founding team and shape the future of AI-powered communication coaching

Competitive compensation: Significant equity opportunities at a venture-backed company

Base compensation: $160k - $190k

Join a fun, inclusive and highly motivated team culture (and help define it!)

## About Yoodli AI Roleplays

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Yoodli provides an AI-powered roleplay platform that helps individuals and enterprises practice and improve communication skills through realistic, judgment-free simulations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Varun Puri (CEO) and Jamie Rapperport (Chief Customer Officer)

## Core Business

- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered communication coaching, sales enablement, enterprise learning & development
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise sales organizations, HR/L&D teams) and B2C (job seekers, public speakers, managers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To help everyone communicate with confidence."

## Products & Services

- **AI Roleplays**: A SaaS platform where learners practice high-stakes conversations with realistic AI personas. Provides instant feedback on delivery, clarity, and pacing. Supports multi-persona and multi-participant roleplays.
- **AI Tutor**: On-demand guidance that reinforces best practices between live coaching sessions, helping learners improve without relying on manager availability.
- **Admin Analytics & Readiness**: Dashboards for tracking individual and team progress, scalable certification workflows, and objective skill development metrics.
- **Free App**: A standalone version for individual users (public speaking, interview prep) available at app.yoodli.ai.

## Market Standing

- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $53M (including a $40M Series B round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Madrona, Neotribe, Allen Institute for AI, Cercano, Emergence Capital, GGV Capital, and individual angels such as Brian Jacobs, Jeff Richards, and Kirby Winfield.
- **Growth Signals**: Customers include Google, RingCentral, Databricks, Snowflake, Sandler Sales, Dale Carnegie, and Toastmasters. Used in 150+ countries. Featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, GeekWire, and a TED Talk. SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant. Supports 40+ languages for global deployment.

## Competitive Advantages

- **Experiential learning**: Replaces passive content (videos, slide decks) with spoken, interactive practice that leads to measurable behavior change.
- **Realistic AI personas**: Roleplays reflect real objections, buyer personas, and pressure, offering consistent and objective feedback every time.
- **Enterprise-ready**: SOC 2 Type 2 security, seamless integration with LMS/CRM tools, and scalable administration for global teams.
- **Privacy-first**: Feedback is private and user-controlled; complements live coaching rather than replacing it.

## Strategic Focus

- Scale the “AI Roleplays” category across enterprise sales, enablement, and leadership development.
- Expand adoption in healthcare, financial services, higher education, and professional services.
- Continue innovating on multi-persona, multi-language, and multi-modal roleplay experiences.
- Grow the self-serve B2C free tier to drive brand awareness and bottom-up enterprise adoption.

## Why Work Here

- **Culture**: Values include humility, authenticity, bias for action, “win together,” and bringing your whole self to work. The team is described as hardworking, creative, and inclusive.
- **Impact**: Opportunity to build and scale a company from the ground up, working directly with the founding team.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid (Seattle office) and remote options available depending on role (e.g., Solutions Engineer West Coast remote, Mid-Market AE Seattle hybrid).
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation (cash + commission), strong backing from top-tier investors, and a clear mission-driven focus.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on failing fast, iterating constantly, and taking bold bets. Team includes alumni from Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Tableau.

## Sources

1. [yoodli.ai - About Us](https://yoodli.ai/about)
2. [yoodli.ai - Homepage](https://yoodli.ai/)
3. [yoodli.ai - Official Information](https://yoodli.ai/info-for-ai)
4. [yoodli.ai - AI Roleplays Platform](https://yoodli.ai/platform/ai-roleplays)
5. [Greenhouse - Yoodli Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yoodliinc)

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