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# Software Engineer, Backend at Sola

- **Company:** Sola
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola/8ae775b2-e137-4d93-8d54-4ce876c7afe0

## Job description

JOIN US IN BUILDING THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL WORK

At Sola, we’re transforming the way work is done. We’re developing AI agents that make powerful automation effortless, enabling any user to record a workflow and instantly scale it up to millions of executions.

Sola today powers enterprise workflows in Fortune 100 companies, with a horizontal platform that works across healthcare, finance, legal, logistics, and more. We’ve raised $21M in funding from a16z, Conviction (Sarah Guo), and Y Combinator, and are looking for passionate engineers to help us continue to scale.

If you’re interested in being on the forefront of agentic automation, we’d love to hear from you!

## WHAT TO EXPECT

We‘re solving one of the most interesting problems in AI today: building reliable, deterministic execution on top of non-deterministic AI models.

As a backend engineer, you’ll work directly on our AI orchestration systems to enable reliable, scalable, durable workflow execution across desktop and web. You’ll collaborate with our frontend team to surface that to the user in a way that is easy and intuitive.

This is an opportunity to join a small, tight-knit team at our HQ in NYC. We believe the best work happens in person, especially at the early stage, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn from the founding team and early engineers to help shape the future of the company.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own systems that automate repetitive work across browser and desktop, handling concurrency, reliability, and observability at scale (millions of executions per month)
- Collaborate with our CTO and ML research partners to bring state-of-the-art agentic workflows into production
- Architect and build the backend systems that power our visual workflow builder – a Figma-style interface used daily by non-technical ops teams
- Design and implement services that integrate with Sola AI models to generate workflows, gain insights, and drive adaptive execution logic

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can ship fast and solve problems end-to-end
- You’ve built and operated distributed systems at scale, with a high standard for reliability, observability, and performance
- You’re proficient across all layers on the backend, from infra to CI/CD to DB to backend service architecture
- You’re fluent with the latest AI coding tools and are always looking for ways to move faster
- You’re open to working 5 days a week out of our office in NYC (we’ll cover relocation!)

## YOU MIGHT EXCEL IF

- You have hands-on experience operating at an early stage startup where ownership and execution in the face of ambiguity were essential
- You’re an expert in some or all of our stack: TypeScript and Python, Kubernetes, Temporal, Postgres, DynamoDB
- You’ve worked directly on AI systems or in ML ops at scale
- You’re ambitious, creative, and a great communicator

## WHY SOLA

- $21M raised from top-tier VCs (a16z, Conviction, YCombinator) and growing incredibly fast
- Proven traction with Fortune 100 customers, with horizontal applicability across a variety of domains (including finance, healthcare, legal, logistics, and more)
- Leading-edge agentic AI tech, solving deep problems in partnership with the AI labs (ex. Anthropic https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7426684058077855744/?originTrackingId=gMllhO4VY3OEPmt2do6k3g%3D%3D, AWS AGI Lab https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7402073015020310528/)
- Small team, early stage, with an opportunity for outsized impact on the company’s future
- Work closely with founders Jessica Wu (ex-Citadel, Thrive Capital) and Neil Deshmukh (MIT Quest for Intelligence Lab), alongside David Fullerton (ex-CTO Heap, Stack Overflow)

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Sola offers competitive salary plus meaningful equity at Series A stage. Exact compensation is based on experience and level.

We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) matching, daily meals together in the office, flexible PTO (4 weeks per year), and relocation support for candidates not already based in NYC.

## About Sola

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sola provides an agentic process automation platform that uses LLMs and computer vision to transform screen recordings into fully functional bots.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jessica Wu (CEO) and Neil Deshmukh (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Automation / Robotic Process Automation (RPA) / AI
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Healthcare, Legal, Government, Transportation & Logistics, Financial Services
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make powerful automation effortless — empowering teams to reclaim time and unlock impact." Sola envisions a world where bots handle repetitive tasks so humans can focus on what they do best. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Process Automation Platform**: A unified platform that records user actions and generates bots using LLMs and computer vision. Core features include:
  - **AI-Powered Workflow Generation**: Creates bots from screen recordings.
  - **Visual Workflow Editor**: A Figma-esque, no-code editor for designing, modifying, and maintaining automations.
  - **Adaptive Automations**: Bots that use dynamic logic, real-time error handling, and user feedback to adapt to changing conditions and minor UI changes.
  - **API Support**: Composable workflows that can be triggered via API and integrated into existing systems.
  - **Orchestration**: Centralized oversight for running and managing automations across teams and systems.
  - **Document Processing**: AI-powered extraction, validation, and structuring of data from documents.
  - **Data Transformation**: Tools to shape, clean, and prepare structured and unstructured data within workflows.
  - **Transparent Monitoring**: Real-time logs, audit trails, and performance insights for every automation.
  - **Enterprise Security**: SOC II & HIPAA compliant, role-based access controls, and enterprise-grade scale.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $21 Million (Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Conviction leading a prior Seed Round). [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/06/12/sola-solutions-raises-21-million-enterprise-ai/) via [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai) and [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sola)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (Lead, Series A), Conviction (Lead, Seed Round), Y Combinator (Participated in W23 Batch).
- **Growth Signals**: 235% year-over-year headcount growth (now at 24 employees). Operates in 9 countries. Active job postings have increased 400% year-over-year. Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+1016.5% yearly). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of Automation**: Sola's key differentiator is the fastest time-to-value by converting screen recordings into automations in minutes, bypassing the lengthy configuration process of traditional RPA tools.
- **AI-Native & Adaptive**: Unlike legacy RPA that relies on brittle if-then logic, Sola uses LLMs and computer vision to create bots that learn, make decisions, and self-optimize in real time, adapting to UI and data changes.
- **Citizen Developer Focus**: The no-code visual editor empowers business experts, not just developers, to build and maintain automations, making "citizen development" a reality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Targeting heavily regulated, process-intensive industries like Healthcare, Legal, and Financial Services where legacy RPA is prevalent but slow.
- **Platform Expansion**: Building a comprehensive, unified platform with a full suite of tools (editor, API, monitoring, orchestration) to win enterprise accounts.
- **Scaling the Team**: With fresh Series A funding and massive headcount growth, the focus is on hiring across engineering, ML, and recruiting to scale the product and go-to-market.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Engineering Culture**: The team is technically driven, with founders who have backgrounds in quantitative research, AI research (MIT-IBM Watson), and successful startup experience. The tech stack is modern, focusing on LLMs, computer vision, and agentic architectures.
- **Strong Backing & Trajectory**: Backed by top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator with explosive growth (235% headcount growth, 400% increase in job postings year-over-year), indicating a strong product-market fit and rapid scaling.
- **Ambitious Mission**: The opportunity to "build the future of work" and shape the next generation of automation is a core part of the company's pitch to potential hires. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the headquarters is in New York City and the team operates across 9 countries, suggesting a remote-friendly or hybrid culture.
- **Current Openings**: Active roles include Software Engineer (Fullstack, Backend, ML Platform, Windows AI Automation) and Founding Recruiter. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola)

## Sources
1. [sola.ai](https://www.sola.ai/)
2. [sola.ai - About Us](https://www.sola.ai/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com - Sola](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sola-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com - Sola](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sola)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Sola](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sola)

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