Staff Backend Engineer

About the role

Blitzy is a Cambridge, MA based AI software development platform on a mission to revolutionize the software development life cycle by autonomously building custom software to unlock the next industrial revolution. We're transforming how enterprises build software, turning enterprise requirements into enterprise grade code with an agentic software development platform that can autonomously execute 80% of the quantum of software development work. We're backed by multiple tier 1 investors, and have proven success as founders of previous start-ups.

OUR CULTURE

Who we are:

Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development. We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.

How we work:

- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company’s and our clients’ most precious asset. We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.

- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team. We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.

- Passion for Invention: We’re pushing the frontier of what’s possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.

- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own and drive the highest-leverage technical work across Blitzy's backend platform, infrastructure, and AI product surface. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will operate with broad technical scope, working alongside our founding team to set direction on some of the hardest problems in our system.

This is a hands-on technical role. You will be expected to stay close to the code, make credible architectural decisions, and hold the bar on engineering quality across the systems you touch. We are looking for an engineer who knows how to identify the highest-leverage problems, unblock the people around them, and drive outcomes that matter to customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for one or more core areas of the platform, balancing speed, quality, security, and scalability

- Write, review, and ship production code that drives meaningful customer and business outcomes, while shaping how the rest of the team writes and reviews code

- Leverage Generative AI tools daily to improve the quality, speed, and effectiveness of both technical and non-technical work, and help others on the team do the same

- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues, driving postmortems and fixes that prevent them from recurring