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# Software Engineer, Product Backend (4-8 YOE) at Airtable

- **Company:** Airtable
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$278k
- **Posted:** 2026-04-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airtable/jobs/8397515002

## Job description

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible toolkit that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us.

As a Full-Stack, Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.

We currently have openings on:

- The Admin & Governance Team (Full-Stack/BE) ensures Airtable is secure, compliant, and enterprise-ready. It owns key admin capabilities like the Admin Panel, SSO, and audit systems, as well as foundational features like User Groups. This team's mission is to accelerate organizational value for the largest customers with enterprise-first governance and controls.
- The Omni Capability & Quality Team (Full-Stack/BE) brings the power of AI directly to Airtable end users—helping them search, navigate, and operate their bases with ease. While other teams focus on embedding AI throughout the platform and building tools for creators, our mission is simple: make AI immediately helpful with little to no setup. From the moment someone opens a base, installs a solution, or uses a template, AI should be there—ready to assist. Our pod also builds much of Airtable's AI platform that helps other engineering teams produce quality AI products.

Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time:

- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration
- Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration

## What you'll do

- Spec and build product features that are beautiful, consistent, and fast, that encourage exploration, and that earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions.
- Work at all levels of the stack, from AWS, Node.js, and SQL to React, HTML. and CSS to build and maintain end to end products on Airtable, with a primary focus on backend development.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential.
- Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.

## Who you are

- You have 4+ years of industry experience with modern full-stack web development, with particular emphasis on backend feature development.
- You are fluent in one or more backend technologies, and are interested in programming in JavaScript and React.
- You are excited by a product-oriented backend role.
- You have a good understanding of web technologies and large-scale web application architecture.
- You have a background in computer science or a related field.
- You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business.
- You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right.
- You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results.
- You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details.
- You are currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City.

Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your [EEO rights as an applicant](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jAj2by1bto5g8Xqn9hWNAwPOMGNd_fM6/view?usp=sharing).

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If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our [Accommodations Request Form](https://airtable.com/shrq13fCV8h1sx2t8) and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants.

Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience.

Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out [Life at Airtable](https://airtable.com/careers/life-at-airtable).

For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is: $170,000—$277,600 USD

Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking [here](https://www.airtable.com/company/personnel-privacy-notice).

For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this [Privacy Collection Statement](https://www.airtable.com/company/job-application-privacy-statement) for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process.

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## About Airtable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Airtable is an AI-native digital operations platform that combines a relational database with custom interfaces, automations, and AI agents to help organizations build apps and streamline workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (currently valued at ~$4B, down from $11.7B peak)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Low-code / no-code platform, enterprise software, AI-powered workflow automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketing, product operations, project management, and more; used by over 500,000 organizations including Netflix, NASA, and Shopify; 80% of Fortune 100 companies
- **Mission or purpose**: “Give everyone the tools they need to organize their world” (original); more recently positioned as the system of record for companies building what’s next.

## Products & Services
- **[Airtable Platform](https://www.airtable.com/platform)**: Core product – a relational database with spreadsheet-like interface, supporting HyperDB (up to 100M records per table), automations, custom interfaces (drag-and-drop app builder), sync, and enterprise administration controls. AI features include Omni (AI builder that creates apps from natural language) and Field Agents (autonomous AI agents that execute tasks across data).
- **[Superagent](https://superagent.com)**: Standalone AI agent platform launched in January 2026. Uses multi-agent coordination to break complex requests into plans, dispatch specialized agents, and synthesize results into interactive deliverables.
- **[MCP Server](https://www.airtable.com/platform)**: Connects AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to Airtable bases for natural-language queries and updates.
- **Integrations**: Seamless connections with Jira, Salesforce, Tableau, OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, Anthropic, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$4 billion (secondary market pricing as of 2026, down from $11.7B peak in 2021)
- **Key Metric**: $478M+ ARR (2024), growing 27% year-over-year; cash flow positive since late 2024
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in recent results, but partnerships with major AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and enterprise tools (Salesforce, Jira, Tableau).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Launched Superagent – first new product in 13 years – in January 2026.
  - Hired David Azose (former engineering lead for ChatGPT’s business products at OpenAI) as CTO.
  - Headcount stabilized at ~900 employees after two layoff rounds (2022/2023) that removed ~491 roles.
  - 37 open positions as of mid-2026, focused on AI/ML, platform, product, and go-to-market roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Relational database at scale**: HyperDB supports hundreds of millions of records, differentiating from spreadsheet-only tools.
- **AI-native platform**: Not a chatbot bolted on; agents (Field Agents, Omni, Superagent) are deeply integrated with structured data and workflows.
- **Enterprise readiness**: Scalable infrastructure for tens of thousands of users, flexible administration, SOC 2 compliance (implied by “security and compliance”).
- **Massive adoption**: Used by 500,000+ organizations, 80% of Fortune 100, creating strong network effects and ecosystem lock-in.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first transformation**: Pivot from a low-code tool to an AI-native platform that orchestrates human workflows and AI agents. Investment in multi-agent coordination, orchestration infrastructure, and natural-language app building.
- **Enterprise expansion**: Targeting larger customers with scalability, compliance, and professional services.
- **Sustainable growth**: Prioritizing cash flow positivity and deliberate hiring over headcount growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Engineering-driven, product impact, learning culture, diverse teams. Glassdoor rating 3.8/5.0, work-life balance 4.0/5.0, 71% recommend to a friend.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid/remote options – roles in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, London, Sydney, and remote-US.
- **Compensation**: Highly competitive engineering pay – IC3 ~$226K total comp, IC4 $340K–$395K, IC5 $438K–$550K, IC6+ $550K–$650K+, new grad ~$170K. Median all-levels ~$445K.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, generous parental leave, home office stipend, L&D budget. Multiple reviews highlight benefits package as a strong retention factor.
- **Considerations**: Two layoff rounds (2022/2023) impacted morale, but culture has stabilized. Hiring is selective – each role has meaningful scope. Strong opportunity for engineers interested in building agentic AI at a company with real revenue and customers.

## Sources
1. [Airtable.com – Platform overview](https://www.airtable.com/platform)
2. [Airtable.com – Careers page](https://airtable.com/careers)
3. [Airtable Greenhouse jobs listing](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airtable)
4. [Jobs By Culture – Airtable 2026 profile](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-airtable-2026)
5. [Airtable.com – Homepage](https://www.airtable.com/)

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