Staff Backend Engineer - Commerce

Job description

About the Role

Together AI is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical vision, architecture, and execution of the commerce platform powering Together's Cloud products. As a staff engineer on the Commerce Engineering team, you will set the engineering direction for mission-critical capabilities — including usage-based billing, payment processing, customer-facing analytics, and product entitlements — while raising the bar for the engineers around you.

This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer who can operate at multiple altitudes: driving system design and long-term architecture decisions while staying hands-on in code. You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, product, finance, and go-to-market — translating complex business requirements into durable, scalable backend primitives that directly impact revenue and customer experience. You'll be expected to define not just what we build, but how we build it well.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant API-driven services and backend systems
• Demonstrated track record of tech lead or staff-level scope — owning system architecture decisions, influencing team direction, and delivering multi-quarter initiatives
• Deep expertise in designing relational database schemas and backend APIs that support complex product and business requirements at scale
• Strong experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams — comfortable partnering with product, finance, and non-technical stakeholders
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