About GlossGenius GlossGenius is the AI-powered system behind the world’s most meaningful appointments, helping 100,000+ service businesses earn more revenue and free up time for the work they love. Our agentic workforce gets more clients in the door, grows profit per appointment, and keeps clients coming back — doing the jobs owners never had time for and couldn’t justify hiring to fill. Businesses on GlossGenius process billions in annual payment volume, and see 65% more revenue using GlossGenius Payments by growing ticket size, rebooking clients at checkout, and saving on processing fees. About the Role GlossGenius has been empowering independent entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness space to pursue their dreams and successfully grow their businesses. As we continue to scale, we're expanding the highest-innovation teams, and we’re building 0-to-1 products we expect to be a massive revenue driver for the business. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader, architect, and enabler. You will own and support the technical direction of our AI enabled products, turning ambitious initiatives into clear, buildable roadmaps. This is an individual contributor role with a healthy balance of leadership and execution (roughly 60% technical planning, architecture, and proof-of-concepts, and 40% hands-on building). You will be a force multiplier for our talented engineering team - unblocking technical hurdles, keeping a healthy backlog of build-ready work, and helping to scale our AI powered products.  What You’ll Do Lead technical planning, system architecture, scaling our AI powered products and 0-to-1 product builds , weighing long-term tradeoffs with precision Write high-quality code and rapidly build proof-of-concepts to validate architecture options and tackle the team's most complex technical challenges Act as a technical mentor and accelerator for backend engineers on the team, proactively identifying systemic technical debt,

Staff Software Engineer, Backend