San Francisco On-site Employment $230,000 - $270,000

Together AI is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer - Commerce

Responsibilities

  • Own and shape the technical strategy for monetization and billing systems, including usage tracking, contracts, access controls, spending policies, and payment handling.
  • Lead architectural evaluations for large-scale system initiatives, prioritizing long-term scalability, accuracy, and code maintainability across the commerce platform.
  • Collaborate with Product, Finance, and Go-To-Market functions to convert business goals into actionable engineering plans and system architectures.
  • Support and develop engineering talent through design guidance, code review, technical mentorship, and upholding strong engineering standards.
  • Design and manage data models and database schemas for key commerce objects, balancing performance, correctness, and adaptability.
  • Work with client engineering teams to define and refine API interfaces that support robust, customer-facing product experiences.
  • Advocate for system reliability and performance by leading incident management, conducting post-incident reviews, and improving the durability of distributed systems and APIs.
  • Proactively address technical debt by identifying risks and implementing improvements while maintaining delivery velocity and engineering sustainability.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Startup equity
  • Health insurance
  • Other competitive benefits

Compensation

Competitive compensation

About company
Together AI
Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company that believes open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation. They are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models, and have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets.
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Job Details
Department Commerce Engineering
Category backend
Posted 8 days ago